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Posted by pancomplex 8 hours ago

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red(jev-pokemon.vercel.app)
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 :)

81 points | 41 commentspage 2
theturtletalks 2 hours ago|
Is Frigade going to use Jev to do object detection?
pancomplex 2 hours ago|
Working on it :)
theturtletalks 2 hours ago||
Nice. When I saw your connection to Frigade, I knew there was a connection haha
dmitrygr 2 hours ago||
Considering it just made Charizard forget its only fire-type move "Ember" to learn "Counter", I note no signs of intelligence.
pancomplex 2 hours ago|
Rookie mistake clearly..
avaer 1 hour ago|
I wish jev took in images so we could do this generically for any game, without memhacks. I'm sure that's coming.

You could front this with an image -> text model but that would be much lower quality vs latency, and the whole point of doing it with a decision model is remove the latency.

Games are a really interesting testing ground for robotics; if we can solve game playing (incl 3d) we could embody "system one" intelligence into robots that have something emulating general reflexes without needing to fine tune.

pancomplex 50 minutes ago|
Agreed this would be super cool and I do see that coming in the future. But Jev-level latency just isn't there yet with full images.