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#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Wrong Way to Approach Diplomacy?

In diplomacy, you can't treat all the other players like their machines. And if you do that, you're going to end up playing really poorly. So we trained a bot in a two player zero sum version of diplomacy and it was superhuman. It would crush any competitor. And then we took that same training approach,. And we trained abot for the full seven player version of the game through self play, without any human data. And we stuck it in a game with six humans. And it got destroyed. Because it just wouldn't be able to understand how the other players were approaching the game  and be able to work with that.

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