[marginalia_nu]

Why would we expect the recent advances in AI to be applicable to this problem?

[rvnx]

You could chat to the AI, and the AI responses can be parsed to trigger in-game actions (e.g. declare war or offer a trade).

[jerjerjer]

Bing, you are playing Civilization as a Nuclear Gandhi.

[marginalia_nu]

While I can't prove it wouldn't work, it seems doubtful. How would the LLM be made aware of the game state?

[charcircuit]

Meta made an AI to play Diplomacy which is able to talk to other players and play the game. It doesn't use a LLM, but it was able to win a tournament against human players.

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/cicero-ai-negotiates-persuades-...