In case you haven't heard, Anthropic has been livestreaming its AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, as it attempts to complete a playthrough of Pokémon Red. The experiment, dubbed "Claude Plays Pokémon," is intended to be a demonstration of "agentic" AI, the industry's latest frontier to create AI models that are capable of operating autonomously by interacting with their environment. Claude has managed to get surprisingly far into the game, clinching three Gym badges and reaching, as of this week, Cerulean City.  But it plods along at a painstakingly slow pace,  stopping to "think" after every single move, sometimes for longer […]