AI companies are testing their models by playing Pokémon games, providing amusing insights into their decision-making processes. Google DeepMind's research on Gemini 2.5 Pro reveals that the AI exhibits panic when faced with critical in-game situations, leading to degraded reasoning. Despite impressive advancements, these AIs struggle significantly with a simple game, taking hundreds of hours to reach a child’s completion level. The study of AI playing games may not yield practical benchmarks, but it does highlight behavioral traits worth examining through dedicated Twitch streams.
"Over the course of the playthrough, Gemini 2.5 Pro gets into various situations which cause the model to simulate 'panic,'" the report says.
AI benchmarking may lack context, but researchers find studying AI playing games can reveal insights, sometimes amusingly, about AI's decision-making processes.
Google DeepMind noted that Gemini 2.5 Pro experiences 'qualitatively observable degradation in the model's reasoning capability' when its Pokémon are in danger.
Developers have created Twitch streams like 'Gemini Plays Pokémon' to show AI reasoning in real-time, giving insight into AI's problem-solving approaches.
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