Facebook Says It Has Created A 'Human-Level' Board Game AI - Kotaku

Facebook, or as we’re supposed to call them now Meta, announced earlier today that their CICERO artificial intelligence has achieved “human-level performance” in the board game Diplomacy, which is notable for the fact that’s a game built on human interaction, not moves and manoeuvres (like, say, chess).

If you’ve never played Diplomacy, and so are maybe wondering what the big deal is, it’s a board game first released in the 1950s that is played mostly by people just sitting around a table (or breaking off into rooms) and negotiating stuff.

So for an AI’s creators to say that it is playing at a “human level” in a game like this is a pretty bold claim.

Which reflects that while CICERO is playing well enough to keep up with humans, it’s far from perfect.