The new system of artificial intelligence can negotiate with people and convince them to enter into partnerships and unions. Meta* claims that developed an agent of AI capable of To defeat people in complex language tasks, such as the board game “Diplomacy”.
Playing the online version of the game, Cicero scored 2 times more points than living players, and entered 10% of the best participants who played more than one game. According to Meta*, Cicero was so effectively used by a natural language for negotiations that players often preferred to work with it than with other players.
The success of Cicero is result combined strategic thinking of neural networks that defeated people in Alphago, with natural processing models, such as GPT-3 and Lamda.
“Cicero can decide that later in the game he will need the support of one particular player, and then develop a strategy to gain the trust of this person – and even recognize the risks and opportunities that this player sees from his point of view,” meta wrote * on his blog.
World diplomacy champion Andrew Jeff noted that Cicero was very consistent throughout all games. The AI agent did not soften his methods of the game and did not change his tactics because of a possible revenge in the game. According to Jeff, Cicero clearly goes through his strategy, but controls his behavior so as not to annoy or not upset other players.
*META and the company’s products (Instagram and Facebook) are recognized as extremist organizations; Their activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation.