Interview with Alex Duffy: Diplomacy AI vs Diplomacy AI

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Alex Duffy discussing AI models competing in Diplomacy and the upcoming Australian Open tournament.

We chat with Alex Duffy who as Head of AI Training at Every Consulting run an amazing project where different AI models competed against each other in Diplomacy. Plus we discuss the upcoming Australian Open tournament. Intro The guys introduce the show and Gavin flags he'll be moving further away from Ken, so the show will become more online than face-to-face (0 mins 15 secs) Interview with Alex Duffy They introduce the interview with Alex from Every Consulting and GoodStartLabs about different AI models playing against each other in Diplomacy (4 mins) The interview kicks off with Alex discussing the research project he ran at Every Consulting where various AI Large Language Models (LLMs) competed against each other in Diplomacy (6 mins 45 secs) Gavin asks Alex how he got into Diplomacy originally (9 mins 50 secs) They discuss the thinking behind the project. During his answer he mentions the Twitch stream of the AI models playing against each other - you can view this on their AI Diplomacy Twitch channel (11 mins 15 secs) They look at how data should be structured and presented to the LLMs (15 mins 45 secs) Alex talks about the different style of play adopted by each LLM - you…

People in this episode

Guest: Alex Duffy

Topics covered

• AI
• Diplomacy
• gaming
• tournaments

Keywords

• AI models
• Every Consulting
• Twitch stream
• Large Language Models
• strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Diplomacy, AI Diplomacy, AI Diplomacy Twitch channel, Every Consulting AI page

Books & works: Diplomacy, The Battle of Bots, Battle of the Bots, Diplomacy Games

Places: Rioja, Spain

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