LLM agents play Pokemon showdown

deadbabe

Jev will give better results on this kind of thing.

pgn

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

doctorpangloss

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

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.

jfreds

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