Claude is designed to play Pokémon by pressing buttons one at a time and receiving feedback through screenshots of the game, which helps it understand its environment.

Claude Plays Pokémon is an experiment that connects Claude, our language model, to the Game Boy game Pokémon Red, allowing it to learn how to play the game from scratch.

I've learned that understanding what information Claude needs to succeed is crucial for its performance in Pokémon.

The experience of watching Claude play Pokémon has helped many people grasp the potential of AI and how it can impact their lives.

The goal of this project is not to beat Pokémon Red but to understand how Claude operates and evaluates its capabilities in agentic tasks.

Claude's performance in Pokémon has provided a tangible way for people to understand what an AI agent can do, moving beyond traditional chatbot interactions.

Claude's interactions with the game are genuine, as it figures out how to progress without a predefined pathway, similar to how a human would play.

Claude's navigation skills are still lacking, as demonstrated when it got lost in a maze-like area of the game, highlighting its need for better spatial awareness.

Initially, Claude struggled to find basic objectives in the game and showed slow progress with many mistakes, but with improvements in the model, it became more adept at navigating the game environment and was clearly improving over time by not getting stuck and trying different strategies.