Introduction

Noam Brown is a research scientist at OpenEI working on planning, reasoning and self-play in language models. As a PhD student at CMU, Noam built the first AI to defeat top humans in no limit poker. After his PhD, Noam joined Facebook AI research where he developed Cicero,. The first AI to achieve human-level performance in the strategy game diplomacy. In 1997, IBM's deep blue, beat Gary Kasparov, the human world champion in chess. It took until 2017, 20 years later, for a computer to beat the best human players at poker.