Cicero
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Lonsdale: Cicero Passed 87 State Laws on $10M Budget
“I have teams in 23 states with Cicero, and we passed 87 laws this year, and it's, you know, we've probably spent like ten million or something like that”
Brown: Debugging game AI requires deep mastery to spot novel brilliance
“When you work on these games, you kind of have to understand the game well enough to like be able to debug your bot because If the bot does something that's, like, really radical and, like, that humans typically wouldn't do, you're not sure if that's, like, a …”
Brown won the 2025 World Diplomacy Championship
“When we released Cicero, we announced it in, like, late twenty-twenty-two, I still found the game, like, really fascinating, and so I, like, kept up with it, I, like, continued to play, and that led to me winning the championship in the World Championship in t…”
Meta's Cicero played 40 Diplomacy games without detection as a bot
“But surprisingly, we managed to go, like, the full 40 games without being detected as a bot.”
Self-play negotiation bots trained without human data invent unintelligible languages
“If you train that bot from scratch with no human data it's going to, it could learn to negotiate, but it could learn to negotiate in a language that's not English. It could learn to negotiate in some like gibberish robot language. And then when you stick it in…”