Google AI happens to be really bad at playing Pokémon, repeatedly 'panicking' and taking more than 800 hours to beat the Elite Four

This feels like a weird nostalgia pull for a PC gaming site, but think back to the first time you really struggled in a Pokémon game—I bet the bleating of your caught companion's dwindling health bar still makes your palms sweat. Well, it turns out Gemini starts to make questionable choices when its Pokémon team is on the ropes too.

While bigging up the Gemini 2.X model family in their latest report, Google DeepMind highlights a surprising case study—namely, the Twitch channel Gemini_Plays_Pokemon.