The Sequence Scope: Diplomacy: The AI Benchmark that Gets Us Closer to the Turing Test

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A few days ago, we discussed the release of CICERO, a language model created by Meta AI that was able to master the complex game of Diplomacy. Last week, DeepMind published a paper oin the Nature journal proposing a technique for cooperation of AI agents in Diplomacy. Little by little, Diplomacy is becoming one of the most interesting benchmarks for reasoning capabilities in large language models.

What makes Diplomacy so fascinating is that the game requires players to negotiate, form-betray alliances, cooperate and compete in an immensely large, seven-player action space. Differently from other game environments, Diplomacy does not rely just on moves on the board but on language interactions between the…