Facebook Says It Has Created A 'Human-Level' Board Game AI

Facebook, or as we're supposed to call them now Meta, announced earlier today that their CICERO artificial intelligence has achieved "human-level performance" in the board game Diplomacy, which is notable for the fact that's a game built on human interaction, not moves and manoeuvres (like, say, chess). If you've never played Diplomacy, and so are maybe wondering what the big deal is, it's a board game first released in the 1950s that is played mostly by people just sitting around a table (or breaking off into rooms) and negotiating stuff. There are no dice or cards affecting play; everything is determined by humans communicating with other humans. So for an AI's creators to say that it is playing at a "human level" in a game like this is a pretty bold claim! One that Meta backs up by saying that CICERO is actually operating on two different levels, one crunching the progress and status of the game, the other trying to communicate with human levels in a way we would understand and interact with.