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Why Are Large Language Models so Terrible at Video Games?

IEEE Spectrum AI29 Mar
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Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across many domains, yet they remain surprisingly incompetent at playing video games, with only rare exceptions like Gemini 2.5 Pro beating Pokemon Blue. This limitation reveals gaps in how current AI systems process sequential decision-making and environmental interaction, highlighting important challenges in developing truly general artificial intelligence.

Despite rapid progress, large language models struggle fundamentally with video games.

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