Lex Fridman PodcastNoam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | Lex Fridman Podcast #344
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- Released
- December 6, 2022
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- 2h 29m
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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:
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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 game of Diplomacy: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade9097 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:09 - No Limit Texas Hold 'em 5:02 - Solving poker 18:12 - Poker vs Chess 24:50 - AI playing poker 58:18 - Heads-up vs Multi-way poker 1:09:08 - Greatest poker player of all time 1:12:42 - Diplomacy game 1:22:33 - AI negotiating with humans 2:04:58 - AI in geopolitics 2:09:43 - Human-like AI for games 2:15:44 - Ethics of AI 2:19:57 - AGI 2:23:57 - Advice to beginners SOCIAL:
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Noam Brown and Lex Fridman, Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation | Lex Fridman Podcast #344 explores aI Masters Poker and Diplomacy, Redefining Strategy, Trust, and Negotiation Noam Brown discusses his work building superhuman AI systems for complex strategic games: heads‑up and six‑player no‑limit Texas Hold’em (Libratus, Pluribus) and the negotiation-heavy board game Diplomacy (Cicero).
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