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Feb 5Liked by Kes Sampanthar

I've been thinking beyond the one human+one machine paradigm to human-machine teaming in these knowledge work domains, and since you've been convincing me more and more about the power of games, I was trying to figure out whether there are any games that demonstrate collaboration among multiple individuals that we could use as a model. Someone recommended Pandemic...are there others?

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Thanks, Marisa. There are quite few good cooperative board games that leverage cooperation in different ways. Pandemic is awesome!

Here are two that have been used in AI research:

Diplomacy

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-for-the-board-game-diplomacy/

Hanabi

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07630

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Feb 5Liked by Kes Sampanthar

Thank you! The Hanabi one is perfect.

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