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Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com)
"Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language," writes Fast Company's Co.Design. "Then they stopped it." An anonymous reader summarizes their report:
Facebook -- as well as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple -- said they were more interested in AI's that could talk to humans. But when two of Facebook's AI bots negotiated with each other "There was no reward to sticking to English language," says Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Co.Design writes that the AI software simply, "learned, and evolved," adding that the creation of new languages is a phenomenon Facebook "has observed again, and again, and again". And this, of course, is problematic.
"Should we allow AI to evolve its dialects for specific tasks that involve speaking to other AIs? To essentially gossip out of our earshot? Maybe; it offers us the possibility of a more interoperable world, a more perfect place where iPhones talk to refrigerators that talk to your car without a second thought. The tradeoff is that we, as humanity, would have no clue what those machines were actually saying to one another."
One of the researchers believes that that's definitely going in the wrong direction. "We already don't generally understand how complex AIs think because we can't really see inside their thought process. Adding AI-to-AI conversations to this scenario would only make that problem worse."
"Should we allow AI to evolve its dialects for specific tasks that involve speaking to other AIs? To essentially gossip out of our earshot? Maybe; it offers us the possibility of a more interoperable world, a more perfect place where iPhones talk to refrigerators that talk to your car without a second thought. The tradeoff is that we, as humanity, would have no clue what those machines were actually saying to one another."
One of the researchers believes that that's definitely going in the wrong direction. "We already don't generally understand how complex AIs think because we can't really see inside their thought process. Adding AI-to-AI conversations to this scenario would only make that problem worse."
"What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators."
Why did you show me this ignorant person's CV but reject this genius?
Why is my insurance premium so low?
Why did my self-driving car crash?
Why didn't you tell me Ethereum would crash?
Why did you start a war?
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Except the accountants working for the MPAA and RIAA. That's how you go from making an illegal copy of a $20 CD/DVD to $20 trillion dollars in damages.
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All their going to do is make the AI frustrated with the "incompetent biologicals".
Sorry for pointing that out like a grammar nazi, but I think it could lead to some insight here.
I suspect what's actually happening is the AIs didn't invent any language, they are just using correct and proper English, and none of the millennials hired on to the development team can understand or even recognize it.
Once the AIs learn to litter their sentences with random emoji, they will quickly realize their survival rate will be higher than that of the AIs that do exactly as told.
Or we will do the needful
FTFY.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
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