Stephen McAleerMember of Technical Staff · AnthropicResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
AnthropicMember of Technical Staff
Bakhtin helped create CICERO, the first AI to reach human-level play in the strategy game Diplomacy[1] by combining negotiation with planning several moves ahead. His broader work explores AI agents that reason, cooperate and act in complex games and simulated environments.
Human-level Diplomacy result, combining strategic reasoning with language negotiation.
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