If Claude Plays Pokémon is supposed to offer a glimpse of AI’s future, it’s not a very convincing showcase. For the past month and counting, Twitch has watched Anthropic’s chatbot struggle to play Pokémon Red. Across multiple runs, Claude has failed to beat the nearly 30 year old game. And yet for David Hershey, the project’s lead developer, the showcase has been a success.
“I wanted some place where I could understand how Claude handles situations where it needs to work over a very long period of time,” Hershey explains to me over a video call. As part of his
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