Ethan Mollick's tweet - "AI has been destroying humans at adversarial games, like Chess or Go, for a bit. But now it is successfully outperforming humans at Diplomacy, the classic multiplayer game that requires natural language negotiations over chat, as well as strategic lying. "

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AI has been destroying humans at adversarial games, like Chess or Go, for a bit.

But now it is successfully outperforming humans at Diplomacy, the classic multiplayer game that requires natural language negotiations over chat, as well as strategic lying. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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In reply to @emollick

Ethan Mollick

@emollick

For more on the legendary friendship-destroying game that is Diplomacy. foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/23/the…

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Travis Fong

@TravisFong

Yes AI might be better at Diplomacy, but can it gather in a house for 10 hours to actually *play* Diplomacy?

Erik Hoel

@erikphoel

Oh good

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John Wiseman

@lemonodor

It turns out it doesn't actually require lying. This system plays at the 90th percentile without it: twitter.com/ml_perception/…

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Ricardo Barahona

@barahona_rm

Has this been done for Settlers of Catan? Asking for a friend..

ST (∞, ∞)

@seyitaylor

Oh good good, the AI is better at us at lying, super great.

conquest.eth / conquest.lens

@conquest_eth

This is super interesting!

We believe closed game like diplomacy are easier than open-ended games like ours but we would love AI researcher to look at conquest.

There is currently 2 humans controlling the conquest universe with hundreds of $ to grab.

Ready for the challenge?

Fabián Plaza Ⓟ 法维安

@fabianplaza

Una de esas cosas que son a la vez chulas y escalofriantes.

Alex J. Champandard ❄️ @alexjc@creative.ai

@alexjc

Yes, finally! Strategic lying is a good thing for adversarial AI to develop.

Applications include ethics-washing large web-scale models:
"No, my original dataset is definitely non-infringing."
"Ah, well... we don't consider models derived works."

(It's a joke, lighten up!)

ScienceStanley.eth

@ScienceStanley

BFD

Maggie McNeill

@Maggie_McNeill

Because obviously what the world REALLY needs is an artificial liar which is better at political deception and "strategic lying" than humans.

Gentry Underwood

@gentry

Probably nothing

Leah (Prime) 🦊 PIT 2/13-2/28

@leahprime

> strategic lying

Tom Swann

@Tom_Swann

Goddamn.

In reply to @emollick

Eveline Carr

@evelineacarr

Pretty amazing. And kinda scary. In this example, Cicero is the AI... pic.twitter.com/TV8JVPEy2x

Mislav Marohnić

@mislav

humans: we sure hope AI won't destroy us!

also humans:

Mohit Singh

@MohitSi16890776

Oh boy! AI at it again.

Eli Sennesh

@EliSennesh

Cool, now it just needs to be able to make a cup of coffee with fluent sensorimotor interaction and we can kill all humans

Matt Ocko

@mattocko

More ominous than you might think 😳

Nicolas Zahn

@NZahn42

#ComputationalDiplomacy

Petter Weiderholm

@pweiderholm

This is cool, and scary. And pragmatically I’d give the first assignment to negotiate cost savings in the state bureaucracy

Saturn 🪐

@ThatSaturnO

ai gonna replace diplomats before it replaces truck drivers

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Emma

@4PFinance

Interesting. I wonder if a game could be created where AI has to run a society and optimize for a high standard of living, high quality of life for citizens while reducing carbon footprint & reducing inequality for example. Would be super interesting the AI solutions.

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Astrid Wilde ☼

@astridwilde1

you seen this yet?

DarkSapiens

@DarkSapiens

🎵 And nothing can go wrong… 🎵

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Kevin Troy

@ktt4d

This is really cool! I wonder how much of the AI’s success can be attributed to its negotiation module vs. the strategic analysis module. I.e. it might be far superior to any human at the realpolitik stuff and just adequate at the communication stuff.

Andy (scary)

@ElRioDorito

this is actually the major sign of the end timea

@jesalas@hachyderm.io

@JoelESalas

Oh great, we taught AI to lie successfully to us to accomplish its goals. This definitely won't be a regrettable development, no way

מגרש עולמי World Play Field

@worldplayfield

צעד נוסף קדימה בתחום של בינה מלאכותית, מנצחת בני-אדם גם במשחק "דיפלומטיה", משחק מרובה משתתפים שאינו משחק סכום אפס. יש בו צורך לשכנע 6 משתתפים נוספים באמצעות יכולות מילוליות גבוהות.
#פידטק
(בקרוב הפרק על AI ומקומו בגיאופוליטיקה בפודקאסט "מגרש עולמי")

Eliot Peper

@eliotpeper

The real test is how well it schmoozes at diplomatic cocktail parties.

David Cohen

@IDavidCohen

When #AI surpasses human in negotiation skills

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●● RastaBricoco ∞/21M ●●

@RastaBricoco

May someone never entrust the world "peace keeping " role to a supposedly smart AI network. This look a lot like some of the bad sci-fi scenario

In reply to @DethVeggie

OBJECTION! overruled.

@rotortorture

No this is how you get skynet: twitter.com/emollick/statu…

Craig Thomler

@craigthomler

When AIs can negotiate more effectively than humans…
#AI

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Chris Heaton, D.Phil.

@ChrisH4Med

Yeah but “over chat” is key. Get back to us when it can do the same “in-person”.

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DAK (D. A. Kronos)

@tzDAK

I am unfamiliar with the game, but looking at your description of it makes me wonder if it might be possible to get the artificial intelligence to learn to beat humans at the game while avoiding lying as much as possible in the process. Maybe even avoiding outright lying entirely

Clement Wolf

@clemwl

ICYMI @timhwang, a possible add-on to future team Diplomacy sessions...

Alberto Cardaci

@alcardaci

This is kind of freaking me out: an AI "inferring players' beliefs and intentions from its conversations and generating dialogue in pursuit of its plans". 😬

Alex Kennedy

@kenakennedy

AI driven foreign policy.

el salvador you wanna try that one out also?

perhaps someday it won't matter if we can parse the difference of human influence vs machine, for the game asks ever forward motion, and we were already held to it's whims.

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Guilherme B Machado

@bertoniMachado

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Jake Makler

@jakemakler

this is a pretty good real life Turing test

Theo Honohan

@theohonohan

Soon we will be able to use AI to deal with timewasters like open source project politics, Mastodon policy disputes etc.

Chris Meyer

@hismerecry

So this could be a possible explanation for everything going on in 2022! The dangers of AI is real and is a HUGE threat

Ed Reznik

@EdReznik

As a childhood player of this unbelievable game, I cannot like this enough.

NeC - biased

@xXNeCXx

pic.twitter.com/YTI2CcDT4N

Xerxes Rex ریکس

@klashankroft

Skynet is close...

Paul Franz

@pkfranz

I'll only believe this when the AI can repeatedly get solo victories at a high rate playing as Italy or Austria-Hungary. 😂

Tomáš Kafka @tomaskafka@mastodonczech.cz

@keff85

Tenhle týden jenom blitz Diplomacy, ale stejně - vypadá to, že budeme jenom přihlížet válkám navzájem se obelhávajících AI, a nebudeme moc tušit, co a proč se vlastně děje.

Jako doteď? :)

Dr. Nash Rafeeq

@nashrafeeg

This is not good

Samي

@SlowSmy

« Cicero uses a strategic reasoning module to intelligently select intents and actions. This module runs a planning algorithm that predicts the policies of all other players based on the game state and dialogue so far, » pic.twitter.com/EAP2Tp5HOr

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Libs of iTunes Ping

@The_Evan

M pic.twitter.com/2pfuMUANU5

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JForestD

@jforestd5

Dave..... Dave...... I'll open the bay door after you help me take Austria on the next turn pic.twitter.com/pxTJIGFAbA

Fabricius

@TFabricius

frghtening

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Jan Zamoysky

@JanZamoysky

Looking forward to AI and robots paying taxes, buying products and services.

(((Milwaukee Muni Bonds Capybara))) 🏗️🌐🧦

@MKECapybara

WHAT PART OF “SUFFER NOT THE SILICA ANIMUS TO LIVE” WAS DIFFICULT FOR YOU ASSHOLES TO UNDERSTAND?

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Ahmed K. Hafsi

@akhafsi

Fascinating article & game selection! The Meta guys had a paper a few years back on negotiation bots using reinforced deep learning that they trained on crowdsourced sets of mock negotiations. This is a perfect evolution of that!

Amanda Werner Gomez

@amandawgomez

I only read a few screens before panic-wondering if the Swedish forest my grandfather emigrated from might still be available.

Observer

@YaaasRight

As someone that used to play Civilization nonstop growing up, this is something

In reply to @emollick

☝️

@badbass84428792

🍿🤖

Jens Noll

@jens_noll

Impressive!

Marissa Brassfield

@efficient

While our attention is focused on consumerism, overconsumption, and brutality, AI systems are learning to negotiate and reason.

Ms. Duns of the Buj’

@DunsDoesitAll

Again I ask, why do we need this ?

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Jonathan Liu

@_jonathanliu

AI hasn't come up against the Diplomacy mastermind that is Vertex yet

Lindsey Young

@lindseyyoung_qw

This is impressive…and somewhat frightening. Shows the potential of AI even when the “data” is natural language.

Why is it scary? Well…Wanna know who else makes decisions on natural language data? Financial advisors.

Tim Gordon

@t_gordon

Not quite the dramatic moment that #Go was but a new milestone

PaulMyers

@PaulMyers

It just keeps getting better. At a scary rate.

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Phil

@RockyRunPhil

Doesn’t this neglect the most important part of diplomacy — enabling diplomats to enjoy themselves?

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V i t a l ï

@Ulan0ff

what does this mean in practice?

James Edwards

@jamesredwards

Butlerian Jihad. Now

CrimeMinister

@RacistPM

The power of AI being trained by @JustinTrudeau - strategic lying!

EdgarNavarro 🦇🔊

@enavdesign

😧

B Chen

@lespider

I for one welcome our new diplomatic overlords

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Lachlan

@bitcloud

Humans are profoundly easy to hack. Anything beyond an antelope and we're useless. $200 million is lost to catfishing each year. That's how easy we are to hack.

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