Technology exceeds any type of limit and artificial intelligence (AI) programs have helped accelerate many advances and discoveries, such as PICAthe AI developed by Meta that can play Diplomacy like humans.
As a report published on the website of ThirdCICERO is a new model of artificial intelligence that Mark Zuckerberg’s company presented this week and that is able to achieve “human level performance” in the aforementioned strategy game.
In case you don’t know it, Diplomacy is an American board game that has also been adapted as a video game, created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954. It is set in Europe in the years before the Great War and in which from two to seven Players control the armed forces of a power.
Players aim to move their starting few units and defeat each other’s units to seize the most strategic cities and provinces marked as “supply hubs” on the map. After each round of negotiations with the players, each player can issue attack and support orders.
What you should know about CICERO
In the case of CICERO, the challenge was that Diplomacy is a degree that not only involves planning and devising strategies, but also involves a verbal component and negotiation with the other players.
With the help of two interconnected matrices dedicated to strategy and conversation, CICERO put its performance to the test in webDiplomacy.net where after 40 games of two hours each got twice the average score of the other players, including 82 humans.
AI ranked in the top 10% of players who played more than one game and came in second out of 19 participants who played at least five.
Although initially CICERO fell into beginner vices such as lying, eventually his performance improved until he reached the aforementioned statisticsaccording to Meta, who added that the CICERO code will be open to encourage innovations.