Can AI Agents Truly Cooperate?

The 2024 NeurIPS Concordia Contest challenges agents to cooperate across five distinct scenarios-ranging from public coordination to collective action-evaluated first through Elo ranking in novel settings and culminating in a cross-play round among the top five performers to determine an overall winner, all orchestrated by a Game Master operating under a “veil of ignorance” to ensure fair competition and assess cooperative strategies.

A new benchmark reveals the challenges large language model-based agents face when navigating complex social interactions requiring strategic cooperation.

Building AI You Can Understand

A new cognitive architecture aims to move beyond opaque machine learning models by grounding AI reasoning in foundational principles of human cognition.