https://gizmodo.com/meta-ai-cicero-diplomacy-gaming-1849811840

The new AI agent, named after the classical statesman and scholar who witnessed the fall of the Roman Republic, was able to effectively communicate and strategize with other human players, plan best methods for victory, and in some cases, even pass as a human.

Reminiscent of Loki in some ways.

And definitely an indicator of where we're rapidly going as far as AI on the other end of our games that can pass as Human more of the time than not.

Now, the researchers say Cicero, which accomplished its tasks by combining dialogue and strategic reasoning models, stands as a “benchmark” for multi-AI agent learning.

Seems like we're hitting ever more impressive benchmarks ever more quickly these days...

There trained it on the game Diplomacy? Do they want an evil overlord AI? Because that's how you get an evil overlord AI!

There’s a dark irony to it’s name if it begins the robot apocalypse.