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Claude isn’t a great Pokémon player, and that’s okay
For the past month and counting, Claude 3.7 Sonnet has played Pokémon Red very poorly. We look at why that is.
Like a lot of recent frontier AI systems, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is a reasoning model, meaning it's designed to tackle problems by breaking them down into smaller pieces. Right now, most people think of AI as a blank chat box waiting to answer a question, but chatbots are only the consumer face of the industry; agentic systems represent an incremental but important step towards the promise of artificial general intelligence. First, there's the surprising fact Hershey delegated a lot of the programming that made the project possible to Anthropic's coding agent including an overlay that allows Claude to make sense of Pokémon Red's game world.
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