Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon

In recent months, the AI industry's biggest boosters have started converging on a public expectation that we're on the verge of “artificial general intelligence” (AGI)—virtual agents that can match or surpass "human-level" understanding and performance on most cognitive tasks. OpenAI is quietly seeding expectations for a "PhD-level" AI agent that could operate autonomously at the level of a "high-income knowledge worker" in the near future. Elon Musk says that "we'll have AI smarter than any one human probably" by the end of 2025. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks it might take a bit longer but similarly says it's plausible that AI will be "better than humans at almost everything" by the end of 2027. A few researchers at Anthropic have, over the past year, had a part-time obsession with a peculiar problem. Can Claude play Pokémon? A thread: pic.twitter.com/K8SkNXCxYJ — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) February 25, 2025 Last month, Anthropic presented its “Claude Plays Pokémon” experiment as ... Read full article.