In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook’s parent company Meta outplayed humans
Technology
18 October 2022
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Two AIs built by Meta can beat expert human players at the classic first world war strategy game Diplomacy. The AIs had to learn how to partly cooperate with other players, an element most other game-playing AIs don’t have to take into consideration.
“There’s a quite unique feature here of Diplomacy being collaborative and competitive at the same time, which makes it exciting,” says Georgios Yannakakis at the University of Malta, who was not involved in the study.
Diplomacy involves up to …