Research has found that Google Gemini may fall into a panic state when playing Pokémon.

Study Finds Google Gemini May Panic When Playing Pokémon

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Study Finds Google Gemini May Panic When Playing Pokémon

Artificial intelligence companies are vying for industry dominance, but sometimes they also battle it out in Pokémon gyms. Both Google and Anthropic have been researching how their latest AI models fare in early Pokémon games, and the results are both interesting and thought-provoking—and this time, Google DeepMind pointed out in a report that Gemini 2.5 Pro panics when its Pokémon is on the verge of death. The report states that this could lead to a "significant decline in the model's reasoning ability" in the AI's performance. Artificial intelligence benchmarking—or the process of comparing the performance of different AI models—is a controversial art, and it usually can't provide...