India, Dec. 2 -- Meta AI has recently announced the creation of 'Cicero' which it claims is the world's first AI to achieve human-level performance in the board game 'Diplomacy'. For some, this news may not be as surprising or significant. We have had many gamer bots before. Take, for example, Stockfish, a chess engine rated 3620 on the FIDE scale. However, such bots only showed prowess in games of calculative or algorithmic nature. Diplomacy, on the other hand, is a game based on forming and betraying alliances between major European powers. A bot with mastery of this game signifies a deep understanding of language and interpersonal skills.

They started with AI models for strategic reasoning, combining it with a BART-like language model...