![]() ![]() Nor, it turned out, did we have much to be ashamed of: Athena2023 had at one point ranked 33rd in the world on the online battle simulator Pokémon Showdown. ![]() But Athena2023 is not capable of smirking or extending pity-or of anything other than playing Pokémon, for that matter-because it is an AI designed by the computer scientist Nicholas Sarantinos. Such a pathetic showing might ordinarily elicit a smirk or some pity from an opposing player. By turn 13, we had lost four of our Pokémon and defeated exactly zero of Athena2023’s. Athena2023 sent out a Lunala, a demonic purple-and-white bird with scythes for wings, which proceeded to eviscerate three straight Pokémon in an attack called Moongeist Beam. The point of a battle is to use your team of six Pokémon to knock out all six of your opponent’s, and we were losing fast. Before we could make another move, Gengar blew away Aegislash, a levitating Pokémon with the appearance of a zoomorphic sword and shield, with a single attack. One more blow like that, and Gengar, a little purple ghost with a sinister grin, would be toast.īut Athena2023 had other ideas. On the first turn of our online Pokémon battle against the player Athena2023, our Aegislash dealt some serious damage to Athena2023’s Gengar. For a brief moment, we could taste victory.
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