LLM Agents Play Pokemon Showdown

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minimaxir

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.

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jfreds

Did you try out different reasoning levels? Wondering if messaging is basically a proxy for additional reasoning

pgn

what was the selection for the teams? random per round? how does it play against people in ladder?

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doctorpangloss

Pokémon Showdown isn't a game so much as it is competitive Wiki reading.

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deadbabe

Jev will give better results on this kind of thing.

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