Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon
Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon
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Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon
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- "PhD level intelligence"
- Fails at basic tasks
I have never found an LLM model this relatable before.
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Damn. This is brutally relatable.
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That is the joke, lol
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They're good for coding tho altho I'm not high-level experienced with that or anything. Just seems to get it right for the simple things I'm working on and the iterating over what you started with helps me a lot
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They're good for coding
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/19/ai-coding-tools-fix-bugs-by-adding-bugs/
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Repeat after me: LLMs do not have intelligence.
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They don't. But nevertheless, the progress they've made in a year is very impressive.
The question left to be seen is how it'll look in a year or two: hardly any improvement, or a beaten elite four?
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I wonder if it knows or can learn to save its state before big battles and trying to catch a legendary pokemon without Master Ball then reset if it doesn't succeed initially. I was a very conservative Pokemon player and I was practically "OCD" about planning ahead for that stuff
Even better it can "cheat"
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Claude frequently finds itself pointlessly revisiting completed towns, getting stuck in blind corners of the map for extended periods, or fruitlessly talking to the same unhelpful NPC over and over, to cite just a few examples of distinctly sub-human in-game performance.
Claude is just like me fr
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The fact that Twitch chat was able to beat Pokemon Red faster than AI's been able to get to Vermillion is pretty funny to me
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If the graphics are a hurdle, choose a newer version. Why are they obsessed with Gen1?
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I wonder if it's because the game itself is the simplest. They keep adding new systems with each iteration—as well as better graphics—so maybe they want to start with the easiest.
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So, it’s really just playing like any 5 year old.
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5 year olds are more capable than this
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