Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

46 points - today at 2:28 PM


Hey HN! Wanted to share a fun project I've been hacking on. Given Jev can make decisions really fast (but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly), I wanted to try and push it to play a more complex game than Tetris. So I went with Pokémon.

I've spent endless hours playing this game as a child so building this was a ton of fun.

I open sourced everything in case you want to hack on it yourself here: https://github.com/christianmat/jev-pokemon

The game is being streamed live including the tokens and cost - hopefully we get all the badges and don't get stuck in a cave :)

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stusmall today at 8:32 PM
This is so interesting to watch. For a couple minutes I was in awe of how quick and cheap it was. Then I saw just how bad the decision are and how it would get stuck in strange loops of going in and out of the same door to no end.

This seems like a technology heading in the right direction but not quiet there yet. Excited for what they are cooking up but probably won't start building around it yet.

MitPitt today at 8:16 PM
This is kinda chill to have in the background. I wish there were livestreams showing live reasoning of top models which are currently trying to solve cancer or whatever. Imagine the pogs in chat when it does.
stusmall today at 8:23 PM
>but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly

Did I miss something? I thought one of the demo videos was it doing pretty decent at the first level of Doom?

lwarfield today at 8:15 PM
Looking at the diagram in the gh repo, it looks like this is entirely jev. Are there any examples of people having a big model like Fable handle high level goals?
rickintoplace today at 2:47 PM
That's actually fun to watch. Did you experiment with nicknaming before you turned it off? I'd be a little curious to see how it behaves.
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361994752 today at 8:16 PM
watched it stuck at rocket hideout for 10 mins.... let me check 1hr later to see if it can find a way out
theturtletalks today at 8:26 PM
Is Frigade going to use Jev to do object detection?
testaccount28 today at 8:11 PM
with such a fat harness, this is more like watching a walk thru play the game.
dmitrygr today at 8:28 PM
Considering it just made Charizard forget its only fire-type move "Ember" to learn "Counter", I note no signs of intelligence.