Gamers will soon be able to have AI agents play video games for them instead of having fun.
Anthropic today announced its new Claude Fable 5 AI model to the public and released a time-lapse video of it defeating Pokémon Firered. Please take a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQBP1w4B1M
Here’s what Anthropic said about the Fable 5 vision AI model demo:
Fable 5 is a new, cutting-edge model for visually demanding tasks. You can extract precise numbers from detailed scientific numbers and perform complex vision-based tasks, such as reconstructing the source code of a web app from just a screenshot. It also requires less scaffolding. For example, the previous Claude model struggled to play Pokémon Firered even with a harness that provided additional useful tools, but in Fable 5 he defeated Firered with a minimal harness with only vision.
A time-lapse of Claude playing Pokemon FireRed from start to finish. Uses only raw game screenshots, no maps, navigation aids, or additional game state information. Previous Claude models required a complex helper harness to play Pokemon. Claude Fabre 5 completed the game using only vision.
The Claude Fable 5 AI model also trains its memory and long-context capabilities by playing Slay the Spire, and Anthropic claims it reaches the final act three times more often than the Opus 4.8 model.
You may ask yourself why this is important. That’s a great question, but these AI companies need random benchmarks to tout the performance of their latest models. Perhaps one day we won’t even need to play video games for entertainment, we’ll just have to let an AI agent do it for us while we sit alone in the corner and reminisce about the days when we had drinking water and could afford consoles and PCs.
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