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Michael L Hicks

Google had its LLM murder itself in Werewolf to test its AI smarts

A slide during the GDC 2024 panel "Simulacra and Subterfuge: Building Agentic 'Werewolf'". It shows the text "Generative Werewolf" and avatars for LLM bots. .

At GDC 2024, Google AI senior engineers Jane Friedhoff (UX) and Feiyang Chen (Software) showed off the results of their Werewolf AI experiment, in which all the innocent villagers and devious, murdering wolves are Large Language Models (LLMs).

Friedhoff and Chen trained each LLM chatbot to generate dialogue with unique personalities, strategize gambits based on their roles, reason out what other players (AI or human) are hiding, and then vote for the most suspicious person (or the werewolf's scapegoat). 

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