Our days are filled with a constant flow of negotiations, from discussing what TV channel to watch to convincing your kids to eat their vegetables or trying to get a better price on something. But can computers negotiate as good as people? 🤖

Researchers at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research have published research introducing dialog agents with a new capability — the ability to negotiate. Even more than that - they’ve opensourced all the Python code and put in on Github!

The researchers have shown that it’s possible for dialog agents with different goals to engage in start-to-finish negotiations with other bots or people while arriving at common decisions or outcomes.

Article below shows visual flow of how two agents divide a set of items between themselves by negotiating. Interested? Just read the article 😉

⌚️7 min read (kinda long, but an interesting one)

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate