Future Sight AI is a program that learns to play Pokemon like a human and at a competitive level. The AI can determine how likely it is to win at the end of a given turn and use that information to rank the paths a move choice can take it down. This method, looking at turns in advance and choosing the ones most favorable to you, is the same one used by the best chess-playing AIs, and now those same techniques can be applied to Pokemon.

However, unlike chess, Pokemon is a game that involves random chance, information unavailable to both players, and a highly variable set of "pieces" (a.k.a. Pokemon) and their potential moves. These additional factors make creating an AI for this game significantly more difficult to complete and interesting to solve. Despite those challenges, the result of the application is an AI that more than matches human play and can climb the rankings on Pokemon Showdown to become one of the top 5% of players in the most popular competitive format.

See Future Sight AI battle along side some in-game analysis!