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Top AI struggle to beat Pokémon game made for 5 year olds. (htxt.co.za)
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With the talk of agentic AI, which are generative AI platforms that can control computer software beyond giving text chats, being the future for the AI industry, one of the top agentic AI systems in the world, Anthropic’s Claude, still can’t beat Pokémon on Gameboy Colour.

Anthropic released a thread on X in February admitting that Claude 3.7, its latest model, was not able to play the original Pokémon RPGs on Gameboy to completion for a number of reasons, but also, despite its inability to finish the games made for children, the AI showed chilling human-like processes in attempting to do so.

Claude 3.7 is one of the most advanced agentic AI models out there, with companies like China’s Manus incorporating it into its systems.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'm not entirely sure "made for 5 years olds" is accurate. I had the game around that age and certainly couldn't beat it either.

[–] ICastFist 23 points 4 days ago

I only beat it at ~10yo because I knew how to read walkthroughs, which is what finally led me to enter Saffron. At no point I thought that one of the purchasable drinks from a vending machine could be used to "bribe" the guard on the entrance, I always thought it was some special item somewhere (which became the case in the FR/LG remakes) or some other event.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

But it makes AI sound stupider, so they went with it. Anyway outside gaming circles, a lot of normals still think all video games are for children.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The moveset of opposing Pokémon is quite limited and the AI is even worse. There's really no strategy by the AI to actually win battles, so I'd say the real challenge was finding out where to go and what to do.