Diplomacy Is Good Because Humans Are Really, Really Dubious

The game is first and foremost interesting to humans because of the human element. You can build up trust as a human, which is a major function of this diplomacy feature. There's certainly something to be said here about coordination. But that's only part of why this is important. The other part is building up trust, chatter, making people happy.

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#ai #cicero #diplomacy

A team from Meta AI has developed Cicero, an agent that can play the game Diplomacy, in which players have to communicate via chat messages to coordinate and plan into the future.

Paper Title: Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning

Commented game by human expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5192bvUS7k

OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introduction

9:50 - AI in cooperation games

13:50 - Cicero agent overview

25:00 - A controllable dialogue model

36:50 - Dialogue-conditional strategic planning

49:00 - Message filtering

53:45 - Cicero's play against humans

55:15 - More examples & discussion

Homepage: https://ai.facebook.com/research/cicero/

Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/diplomacy_cicero

Blog: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-and-cooperates-with-people/

Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097

Abstract:

Despite much progress in training AI systems to imitate human language, building agents that use language to communicate intentionally with humans in interactive environments remains a major challenge. We introduce Cicero, the first AI agent to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game involving both cooperation and competition that emphasizes natural language negotiation and tactical coordination between seven players. Cicero integrates a language model with planning and reinforcement learning algorithms by inferring players' beliefs and intentions from its conversations and generating dialogue in pursuit of its plans. Across 40 games of an anonymous online Diplomacy league, Cicero achieved more than double the average score of the human players and ranked in the top 10% of participants who played more than one game.

Authors: Anton Bakhtin, Noam Brown, Emily Dinan, Gabriele Farina, Colin Flaherty, Daniel Fried, Andrew Goff, Jonathan Gray, Hengyuan Hu, Athul Paul Jacob, Mojtaba Komeili, Karthik Konath, Minae Kwon, Adam Lerer, Mike Lewis, Alexander H. Miller, Sasha Mitts, Adithya Renduchintala, Stephen Roller, Dirk Rowe, Weiyan Shi, Joe Spisak, Alexander Wei, David Wu, Hugh Zhang, Markus Zijlstra

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