Comment by archon1410
2 months ago
Claude Plays Pokemon was the original concept and inspiration behind "Gemini Plays Pokemon". Gemini arguably only did better because it had access to a much better agent harness and was being actively developed during the run.
See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7mqp8uRnnPdbBzJZE/is-gemini-...
Not sure "original concept" is quite right, given it had been tried earlier, e.g. here's a 2023 attempt to get gpt-4-vision to play pokemon, (it didn't really work, but it's clearly "the concept")
https://x.com/sidradcliffe/status/1722355983643525427
I see, I wasn't aware of that. The earliest attempt I knew of was from May 2024,[1] while this gpt-4-vision attempt is from November 2023. I guess Claude Plays Pokemon was the first attempt that had any real success (won a badge), and got a lot of attention over its entertaining "chain-of-thought".
[1] https://community.aws/content/2gbBSofaMK7IDUev2wcUbqQXTK6/ca...
I disagree - this is all an homage to Twitch Plays Pokemon, which was a noteworthy moment in internet culture/history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon