Comment by minimaxir
3 hours ago
As a tangent, there has recently been drama with AI and Pokemon Showdown because someone trained a bot (using standard reinforcement learning + a rewrite of the Pokemon battle engine to Rust for max self-play parallelism) that is apparently good enough to get to the top of the leaderboard.
That could be good news.
We may are approaching the point that online games become just playing against bots. I would love to see arcades and gaming cafes back. Real human connection instead of playing against bots. Ironically. For many years. The internet was the place to play against humans. AI, decompilation, and other tech may turn that around.
Oh, I haven't been keeping up with Showdown news lately... which format? I assume either OU or randbats?
Yeah I saw that too which was partly the inspo for this experiment. I feel like its kind of getting to a place like in chess where AI is getting better and while theres alot of drama right now, I feel like it'll be something like stockfish in the future