Interview with Noam Brown, WDC Champion 2025

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Noam Brown discussing his recent World Diplomacy Championship win and insights on AI in Diplomacy.

We catch up again with Noam Brown about his World Diplomacy Championship win this year in San Francisco and get an update from him. Plus the guys talk more about the Cane Toad Classic being held at the end of August. Intro and Diplomacy chat The guys introduce the venue and their drinks in this Athens inspired venue (0 mins 15 secs) Gavin outlines his plans for travelling on the cheap to Greece for WDC 2026 (3 mins) Interview with Noam Brown They set up the interview with Noam Brown (6 mins 45 secs) Noam discusses how the WDC this year required a lot of attention and was pretty exhausted (8 mins) He talks about the four WDC's he's been to and what he's learned over the years (11 mins) They talk a little about Cicero and what Noam learnt from his involvment in the project and how he'd approach the issue of a broader reputation and AI - if you don't want to listen to the technical stuff, fast forward to about 30 mins 20 secs (17 mins 15 secs) Noam discusses how much AI has improved since Cicero launched (23 mins 45 secs) Gavin asks how Noam would approach Cicero differently if he had his chance today and how general purpose models impact that (25 mins 45 secs) Gavin asks how did…

People in this episode

Guest: Noam Brown

Topics covered

• World Diplomacy Championship
• Cane Toad Classic
• AI in Diplomacy
• Cicero project

Keywords

• WDC 2025
• San Francisco
• Greece
• Cicero
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Classic, Mythos, Stitcher

Books & works: Diplomacy, Diplomacy Games

Places: San Francisco, Athens, Greece, Brisbane

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