Pokemon
topic on 5 shows · 10 statements across 8 episodes
Acquired
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Masters of Scale
BigDeal
Latent Space
10 statements about Pokemon, every show
Krentsel: Exo autonomously modified its code to inspect Pokémon game RAM
“We've had XO running, playing, playing Pokemon. And while it's running, the system itself decided to try inspecting the like RAM of the game and then went and mapped the RAM to, and people have reversed in the past, people have reverse engineered this manually…”
Tay: DeepMind did not optimize Gemini specifically for Pokémon
“There's actually nothing specifically done for Pokemon.”
Gary Vee predicts he will be known primarily for VeeFriends
“VFriends is the other biggest business I run. That's my Marvel Pokemon. It's an intellectual property. That's, I do actually believe in my eighties, that's what I will be known for more than anything else I've done.”
Brown: OpenAI's o3 Gets 'Not Very Far' Playing Pokémon Unharnessed
“How far does O three get without any harness? How far does it get playing Pokemon? And the answer is like, not very far, you know?”
Pokémon is ideal for testing AI agents because delays bring no penalty
“Pokemon's actually really nice because, like, if you don't do anything for five seconds, like, there's typically not a consequence by the nature of, like, doing inference on a model every, like, snapshot of time. It's actually a pretty good game to be able to …”
Claude aggressively hallucinates game zone transitions without explicit negative feedback
“Claude will, like, pretty aggressively hallucinate that it succeeded in transitioning between zones if you don't, like, tell it did not.”
Claude spent 12 hours overnight mistaking a Pokémon doormat for a textbox
“I once saw it see like a red box on the screen that was like the doormat and think it was a text box and spend 12 hours pressing A overnight to try to clear the text box, which you see that happen once and you add in some helpful reminders to not do that.”
Vaynerchuk aims to build VeeFriends into 'Sesame Street meets Pokémon'
“I I'm loudly and quietly Trying to build Sesame Street meets Pokemon.”
The NFL Is the Single Largest Media Property in the World
“It's that the NFL is the single largest media property by value, and the funny thing is, if you go look at the, because we did this for the Nintendo episode, you go look at the largest media Media properties. They list Mario, they list Pokemon, and they, and t…”
Slavin: Early growth focus would have forced Area Code into an all-in Pokémon bet
“And if we'd had to think about growth from the very beginning, man, we would never have done Anything we did, you know, we would, you know, we would have bet it all on, on this idea that we had in 2004 that we went and talked to the Nintendo corporation. We ha…”