Pokémon, every mention
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every year anyone David Hershey 18Alessio Fanelli 10Shawn Wang 4Jesse Han 4Noam Brown 2Alex Krentsel 2Yi Tay 1Lance Martin 1Carina Hong 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Pokémon comes up
Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
- ▶ 11:41 Alex Krentsel We've had XO running, playing, playing Pokemon. 2 times in the scene
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 47:06 Carina Hong I have Twitter users who enjoy Pokemon, like hunting, um, Erdos problems.
Captaining IMO Gold, Deep Think, On-Policy RL, Feeling the AGI in Singapore — Yi Tay
- ▶ 2:25 Yi Tay It's like you play Pokemon, you, you leave it aside
- ▶ 26:43 unnamed speaker Maybe an easy one to start with would be, a lot of people were focusing on maybe academic benchmarks two years ago, last year, maybe LM Arena, this year, Pokemon. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:15 unnamed speaker Like you give Gemini access to web search and you would say, okay, come try to collect all the Pokemon in a Pokedex.
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 59:17 Alessio Fanelli That has been on, you know, I own a card store in San Carlos, so I do, like, Magic the Gathering Pokemon, and there's a similar thing happening where, like, you know, there's a lot of speculation just because everything is-
Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- ▶ 31:15 Lance Martin And I think he, he cited a very specific example from Gemini two, five plane Pokemon.
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 13:36 unnamed speaker I think the Pokemon example is a good one of, like, the System One kind of has maybe all this information about games, and then once you put it in the game, it still needs a lot of harnesses to work, and I'm trying to figure out how much…
- ▶ 14:15 Noam Brown And actually, you know, it's interesting because like when this, uh, playing Pokemon thing kind of like emerged as, as this like, you know, benchmark, I was actually like pretty opposed to evaling this with our, with our like opening eye… 2 times in the scene
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 51:51 Shawn Wang This, this is again something we had, a discussion we had before recording, which is, uh, in the Cloudplace Pokemon hackathon, we had access to, uh, more sort of branching environments feature, which meant that we could take any VM state,…
Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
- ▶ 12:12 David Hershey You will see it make, like, pretty dumb Pokemon decisions frequently. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:04 David Hershey Like, you're playing Pokemon. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:19 unnamed speaker How to get a large language model to play Pokemon. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 Jesse Han Who's ready to play some Pokemon? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:35 unnamed speaker Uh, if you go into the Pokemon example, you'll see this eva.py file. 8 times in the scene
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 1:19:22 unnamed speaker And or MCB server with like the Godot engine, which I was using to build the game and just like have really easy, like AI integration with that, or like have, you know, Claude run and play test my game or something like Claude plays… 2 times in the scene
The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
- ▶ 20:09 Shawn Wang Do you think, uh, computer use can play Pokemon? 2 times in the scene
How Claude Plays Pokémon was made
- ▶ 0:55 David Hershey Excited to talk Pokemon.
- ▶ 1:06 Alessio Fanelli And then you had this Cloud Plays Pokemon thing that kind of went viral, where if people remember, there used to be this thing called Twitch Plays Pokemon, where people could go on Twitch and kind of type in the chat and then busy, like,… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:10 David Hershey In fact, like, I explicitly have, like, tried not to, like, hyper-engineer this to be, like, the best chance that exists to beat Pokemon. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:25 David Hershey The knowledge that it has about Pokemon is helpful or harmful towards it playing the game. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:59 David Hershey I think you'd really want to think about running this as a side project in terms of the impact on your personal wallet and how much you care about Pokemon.
- ▶ 35:14 Alessio Fanelli I don't know if you're planning on open sourcing any of the Pokemon stuff, but if you want to work in open source on the magic stuff, I'll be happy to collaborate.
Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno
- ▶ 45:47 Shawn Wang Um, and they, they kind of wired it up to a Nintendo emulator and play Pokemon, like the whole game through, uh, the collaborative thing.