AI at Play - Lessons from a silly benchmark

Earlier this year, Anthropic treated us to the delightful Claude Plays Pokemon : a wonderful way of watching some poor AI model get lost forever in Mt Moon, fighting a swarm of Zubats, and presumably hating it just as much as we once did. Now, I don’t work at Anthropic (and I definitely don’t have as many credits as they do), but I do love games, and think they tell us something about the people…