#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
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<p>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:<br />
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<p><b>EPISODE LINKS:</b><br />
Noam’s Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/polynoamial">https://twitter.com/polynoamial</a><br />
Noam’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-brown-8b785b62/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-brown-8b785b62/</a><br />
webDiplomacy: <a href="https://webdiplomacy.net/">https://webdiplomacy.net/</a><br />
Noam’s papers:<br />
Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker: <a href="https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10119653">https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10119653</a><br />
Superhuman AI for heads-up no-limit poker: <a href="https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10077416">https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10077416</a><br />
Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097</a></p>
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<p><b>OUTLINE:</b><br />
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(00:00) – Introduction<br />
(05:37) – No Limit Texas Hold ’em<br />
(09:30) – Solving poker<br />
(22:40) – Poker vs Chess<br />
(29:18) – AI playing poker<br />
(1:02:46) – Heads-up vs Multi-way poker<br />
(1:13:37) – Greatest poker player of all time<br />
(1:17:10) – Diplomacy game<br />
(1:27:01) – AI negotiating with humans<br />
(2:09:26) – AI in geopolitics<br />
(2:14:11) – Human-like AI for games<br />
(2:20:12) – Ethics of AI<br />
(2:24:26) – AGI<br />
(2:28:25) – Advice to beginners</p>