#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 checking out our sponsors:

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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

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OUTLINE:

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(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