663: Astonishing CICERO negotiates and builds trust with humans using natural language

<p>NLP, transformer architectures, and machines beating humans at their own game: Jon Krohn talks to Alexander H. Miller about his work in building a machine that can outsmart humans in the game of Diplomacy by engineering powers of persuasion and collusion to its own advantage.</p><p>This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick (<a href='https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-mccormick'>linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-mccormick</a>). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit <a href='https://www.jonkrohn.com/podcast'>JonKrohn.com/podcast</a> for sponsorship information.<br/><br/></p><p>In this episode you will learn:<br/>• Training a natural language model to interact with Diplomacy players [05:07]<br/>• Processing speeds for a Diplomacy bot [29:32]<br/>• Using transformer architectures [37:25]<br/>• How Diplomacy AI actually works [43:25]<br/>• CICERO&apos;s potential real-world applications [55:28]<br/>• How to R&amp;D an AI project [59:27]<br/>• How to become an AI Research Manager [1:06:12]<br/><br/></p><p>Additional materials: <a href='https://www.superdatascience.com/663'>www.superdatascience.com/663</a></p>