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An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game. Here's why that's a big deal

  • Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
An AI named Cicero can beat humans in Diplomacy, a complex alliance-building game. Here's why that's a big dealShutterstock

In a rare piece of good news from Meta, artificial intelligence researchers at the company have just announced a scientific breakthrough. Their AI program named Cicero can now play the board game Diplomacy at a human level.

Now, before you get too excited, Cicero isn’t playing at superhuman level. It was beaten by around 10% of...

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