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Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#1 Post by CptMike » Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:51 pm

Hello,

I have just found this article on the internet.

The author claims his agent (bot) achieves a rank of 23 / 1128 human players on webdiplomacy.net, ie here.

Is he talking about "our" bots ? Or did he try an improved version ?
I don't remember a challenge took place with them. If not, a hum vs 6 bots is not the same as a bot among numeours humans...

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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#2 Post by bo_sox48 » Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:49 pm

Some researchers worked with us to develop a bot of their own, and after it had played a number of games against humans we tabulated their bot's Ghost Ratings. It ranked 23rd in the gunboat ratings. It would rank lower if inactive players were included, but at the time we chose not to include inactive players because the ratings typically did not include inactive players back then. Even so, it was a very impressive development.

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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#3 Post by CptMike » Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:32 am

bo_sox48 wrote:
Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:49 pm
Some researchers worked with us to develop a bot of their own.
Thank you!

Could you point to the games played with the bot ?
How was it named ?

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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#4 Post by A_Tin_Can » Wed Nov 04, 2020 10:10 am

This is cool! When was this?

Also:
n anonymous games against humans
Clearly, they don't know if the games were against humans or not, since neither do we.
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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#5 Post by CptMike » Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:02 am

Up.
bo_sox48 wrote:
Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:49 pm
Some researchers worked with us to develop a bot of their own, (...)
Could you give us the name of that bot on Webdiplomacy so that we can find the link to the games it played ?

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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#6 Post by A_Tin_Can » Fri Nov 06, 2020 7:13 am

All the clues you need to find this out are in the paper.

I'll give you another, though- it only posts "GG" or "GG!" after the game. It doesn't always post this, and I suspect it might have been manual (at least on some games).

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Re: Paper about webdiplomacy bots

#7 Post by Doug7878 » Mon Nov 09, 2020 1:55 am

fairplay ?
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