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.
Yeah! So I did teams from a fixed, random seeded pool and then would rerun it with the switched teams. It also doesn't play against ladder yet but I played against it and it's not horrible. It plays better than an amateur but I was able to beat it a good amount
At the same time, it’s interesting seeing how generally capable language models/LLMs/agents/harnesses are getting
We’ll probably see a lot more experiments and benchmarks like these in the near future
0: simple classifiers can play quite a few game, including Doom https://playground.jeffyclassify.com/#doom