Pokémon

7 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2025 by David Hershey · said 74 times in 12 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Mar 4, 2025 neutral
Insight
Prompting Claude cannot improve its spatial navigation without explicit instructions
“You can try to prompt Quad a lot of different ways to understand how to navigate better, and anything short of telling it exactly what to do does not improve its, like, actual navigation.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 19:55 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Mar 4, 2025
Disclosure
Upgrading Claude models in Pokémon primarily involves deleting prompt scaffolding
“Literally every model that has come out with Pokemon, like, the main change that I have made to this agent is deleting prompt stuff.”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 22:51 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Mar 4, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Prompting Claude to nickname its Pokémon caused it to exhibit protective behaviors
“And one thing we found when we started doing that is it got more protective of the Pokemon it nicknamed. Like, it's pretty obvious, like, when it catches a Pokemon, Now that it has a nickname, it will, like, go heal it right away if it's hurt, and that did not…”
David Hershey Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 25:13 How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
Apr 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hershey: Claude 3.0 Sonnet Hallucinated Pokémon Progress Instead of Playing
“Sonnet three point oh, I eventually hooked up to this, just because, like, fun to see what would happen. And it started role playing its own progress of the game, so like, it stopped being able to make progress, and instead it said, so like, now I'm going to g…”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 7:10 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
Apr 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Hershey: Claude is exceptionally bad at point-to-point spatial navigation
“The thing that Claude's the worst at is understanding how to get from point A to point B. It's, like, really, really god-awful at hitting the buttons to go from point A to point B on a screen.”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 3:24 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
Apr 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Hershey: Pokémon serves as an effective multi-day evaluation benchmark for AI models
“Building evals that actually test, like, time performance over, like, days of token sampling are quite hard. Like, it's actually really, really hard to build things that you can measure In a reasonable way. And one, this is one of them. Like, it's an eval that…”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
Apr 5, 2025
Disclosure
Hershey Restricts Multi-Button Inputs After Claude Overwrote Ivysaur's Attack
“People who have watched the stream often complain about the fact that I don't let Claude press multiple buttons when there's dialogue on the screen anymore. That's because I watched a run, or a run, where it had an Ivysaur in Mt. Moon, and it had Tackle as its…”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 7:58 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
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