AI Master: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Conquers Pokémon

Anthropic, the developer of the AI model Claude, has announced that the latest version of its AI, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, can now play the classic video game Pokémon. In a recent post on X, Anthropic revealed that an early version of Claude 3.7 Sonnet was able to defeat opponents within hours of playing the game.

According to Anthropic, Claude 3.7 Sonnet keeps notes in its knowledge base, observes the screen, and employs function calls to click buttons and navigate the game. This ability to plan its next moves and adapt its strategies allowed Claude to defeat opponents that previous models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet would struggle with.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is not the first AI model to play video games successfully. Last March, researchers used ChatGPT to play the classic first-person shooter Doom, managing to reach the last room in the game once. That same month, Google DeepMind launched its Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA), a generalist AI capable of performing various tasks such as text generation, image analysis, and translation, which was trained to play video games such as No Man’s Sky, Teardown, and Valheim.

Anthropic's announcement highlights the growing capabilities of AI models in understanding and interacting with complex environments, such as video games. As AI continues to advance, it is likely that we will see more examples of AI models tackling novel tasks with increasing competence, not just through training but with generalized reasoning.