Meta's board game-playing AI can pass as a human in game negotiations

Search Meta's board game-playing AI can pass as a human in game negotiations An AI developed by researchers at Meta convincingly negotiated with humans while playing an online version of the board game Diplomacy. It was also ranked in the top 10 per cent of players Technology 22 November 2022 Diplomacy is a first world war strategy game Alamy Stock Photo An AI that is an expert player of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy can now participate in game conversations and negotiations without most human players realising they are talking to a machine. The game of Diplomacy involves seven players competing for control over European territories. But there is also room for cooperation as players negotiate temporary alliances in coordinating movements and attacks. Researchers at Meta, the parent company to Facebook, built an AI named Cicero that learned to play Diplomacy through trial and error and by partially mimicking what human players typically do.