Facebook Built an AI System That Learned To Lie To Get What It Wants (qz.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: Humans are natural negotiators. We arrange dozens of tiny little details throughout our day to produce a desired outcome: What time a meeting should start, when you can take time off work, or how many cookies you can take from the cookie jar. Machines typically don't share that affinity, but new research from Facebook's AI research lab might offer a starting point to change that. The new system learned to negotiate from looking at each side of 5,808 human conversations, setting the groundwork for bots that could schedule meetings or get you the best deal online. Facebook researchers used a game to help the bot learn how to haggle over books, hats, and basketballs. Each object had a point value, and they needed to be split between each bot negotiator via text. From the human conversations (gathered via Amazon Mechanical Turk), and testing its skills against itself, the AI system didn't only learn how to state its demands, but negotiation tactics as well -- specifically, lying. Instead of outright saying what it wanted, sometimes the AI would feign interest in a worthless object, only to later concede it for something that it really wanted. Facebook isn't sure whether it learned from the human hagglers or whether it stumbled upon the trick accidentally, but either way when the tactic worked, it was rewarded.

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This proves something

[fustakrakich]

'Artificial' intelligence isn't so artificial. Nature rules, babe

Re:But this is not AI..

[rtb61]

Here is a business strategy. Fuckers who lie to you, you do business with them only once. A company lies to you, you do business only once until suitable redemption has occurred which exceeds the gain they made by lying. Apparently corporate douche bags fail to realise this, hence their pursuit of an idiot tactic doomed to fail. A pattern for US business, take for example US sanctions on Russia, around the world they are seen as political bullshit, everyone knows they are a lie with arms sales at their core and nothing else but the US in it's arrogance keeps pursuing them because in their idiotic arrogance they think they are fooling entire governments and winning. This instead of the reality, creating global resentment at how blatantly corruptly they are being applied and being forced on other countries (destroying a resource by ignorantly exploiting it and the only really outcome strengthening the Russian economy by promoting local development).