#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation

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Lex Fridman

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 154 minutes

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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: – True Classic Tees: https://trueclassictees.com/lex and use code LEX to get 25% off – Audible: https://audible.com/lex to get 30-day free trial – InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off – ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free EPISODE LINKS: Noam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/polynoamial Noam’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noam-brown-8b785b62/ webDiplomacy: https://webdiplomacy.net/ 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

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with No Brown.
0:02.4	Research scientists at Fair, Facebook AI Research Group at Meta AI.
0:07.0	He co-created the first AI system that achieved superhuman level performance
0:11.9	in no limit Texas Holdem, both heads up and multiplayer.
0:15.9	And now, recently, he co-created an AI system that can strategically outnegotiate humans
0:22.7	using natural language in a popular board game called Diplomacy,
0:26.7	which is a war game that emphasizes negotiation.
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