Pokémon Red and Blue on Game Boy are some of the best-selling video games of all time, and part of the world’s biggest media franchise. Now, it’s being used as an AI benchmark, and as a lifelong fan of Pikachu, I’m absolutely hooked watching AI try to figure these games out.
You may have heard of Claude Plays Pokemon already, but if not, there’s a Twitch channel live streaming Anthropic’s AI attempting to complete Pokemon Red, and it has been playing the 1996 video game classic for months now.
