#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

Noam Brown is a research scientist at FAIR, Meta AI, co-creator of
AI that achieved superhuman level performance in games of No-Limit
Texas Hold'em and Diplomacy. Please support this podcast by
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webDiplomacy: https://webdiplomacy.net/ Noam's papers: Superhuman
AI for multiplayer poker:
https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10119653 Superhuman AI for
heads-up no-limit poker: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10077416
Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097 PODCAST INFO:
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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (05:37)
- No Limit Texas Hold 'em (09:30) - Solving poker (22:40) - Poker
vs Chess (29:18) - AI playing poker (1:02:46) - Heads-up vs
Multi-way poker (1:13:37) - Greatest poker player of all time
(1:17:10) - Diplomacy game (1:27:01) - AI negotiating with humans
(2:09:26) - AI in geopolitics (2:14:11) - Human-like AI for games
(2:20:12) - Ethics of AI (2:24:26) - AGI (2:28:25) - Advice to
beginners