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Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon
Weeks later, Sonnet’s “reasoning” model is struggling with a game designed for children.
In recent months, the AI industry's biggest boosters have started converging on a public expectation that we're on the verge of “artificial general intelligence”(AGI)—virtual agents that can match or surpass "human-level" understanding and performance on most cognitive tasks. That breakthrough, Anthropic wrote, was because the “extended thinking” by Claude 3.7 Sonnet means the new model "plans ahead, remembers its objectives, and adapts when initial strategies fail" in a way that its predecessors didn’t. Like a conspiracy theorist who builds an entire worldview from an inherently flawed premise, Claude can be incredibly slow to recognize when an error in its self-authored knowledge base is leading its Pokémon play astray.
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