On: CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, an...

[mckeed]

That's an interesting point, though – that compared to Chess or Go, playing against other versions of itself is less helpful for improving against humans, due to the requirement of communication with the other players.

[euroderf → mckeed]

Sure thing. But if they trained these against human players, winningly, and THEN sic'd'em on each other... oh dear.