So Diplomacy is not a computationally complex game, it’s a game about out-strategizing your opponents where roughly all of the strategy is convincing other of your opponents to work with you. There are no new tactics to invent and an AI can’t really see deeper into the game than other players, it just has to be more persuasive and make decisions about the right people at the right time. You often have to do things like plan ahead to make your actions so that in a future turn someone else will choose to ally with you. The AI didn’t do any specific psychological manipulation, it was just good at being persuasive and strategic in the normal human way. It’s also notable for being able to both play the game and talk with people about the game.
This could translate into something like being good at convincing that the AI should be let out of its box, but I think mostly it’s just being better at multiple skills simultaneously than many people expected.
(Disclaimer: I’ve only played Diplomacy in person before, and not at this high of a level)
So Diplomacy is not a computationally complex game, it’s a game about out-strategizing your opponents where roughly all of the strategy is convincing other of your opponents to work with you. There are no new tactics to invent and an AI can’t really see deeper into the game than other players, it just has to be more persuasive and make decisions about the right people at the right time. You often have to do things like plan ahead to make your actions so that in a future turn someone else will choose to ally with you. The AI didn’t do any specific psychological manipulation, it was just good at being persuasive and strategic in the normal human way. It’s also notable for being able to both play the game and talk with people about the game.
This could translate into something like being good at convincing that the AI should be let out of its box, but I think mostly it’s just being better at multiple skills simultaneously than many people expected.
(Disclaimer: I’ve only played Diplomacy in person before, and not at this high of a level)