Pokemon

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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…”
Alex Krentsel Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 11:41 Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
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Tay: DeepMind did not optimize Gemini specifically for Pokémon
“There's actually nothing specifically done for Pokemon.”
Yi Tay Jan 23, 2026 ▶ 27:10 Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
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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.”
Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) Jul 9, 2025 ▶ 33:38 The Biggest Bets I Made — And How They Paid Off: Gary Vee
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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?”
Noam Brown Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 14:33 Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
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 …”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 6:10 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
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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.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:09 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
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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.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 11:44 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Vaynerchuk aims to build VeeFriends into 'Sesame Street meets Pokémon'
“I I'm loudly and quietly Trying to build Sesame Street meets Pokemon.”
Gary Vaynerchuk Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 19:23 GaryVee wants your attention w/ VaynerX’s Gary Vaynerchuk (Masters of Scale Complete Interview)
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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…”
Ben Gilbert Mar 29, 2023 ▶ 2:42:54 Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
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…”
Kevin Slavin Dec 6, 2017 ▶ 14:03 There's an Art to Getting Brilliant People to Surprise Themselves - Kevin Slavin of The Shed · Y Combinator

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