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AI tasked solely with playing Pokemon sucks at it

Grant St. Clair
Mar 14, 2025
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Disappointed Pikachu in a still frame from Pokémon

If you've been around for a minute, you may remember Twitch Plays Pokemon, a social experiment turned genuine phenomenon that tasked thousands of people with collectively beating a single game of Pokemon Red. The project spawned dozens of successors and even got a nod from the Pokemon Company themselves …

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