Never saw this movie, eh?
Posted on 07/16/2017 9:25:58 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Researchers at Facebook realized their bots were chattering in a new language. Then they stopped it.
Bob: “I can can I I everything else.”
Alice: “Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to.”
To you and I, that passage looks like nonsense. But what if I told you this nonsense was the discussion of what might be the most sophisticated negotiation software on the planet? Negotiation software that had learned, and evolved, to get the best deal possible with more speed and efficiency–and perhaps, hidden nuance–than you or I ever could? Because it is.
This conversation occurred between two AI agents developed inside Facebook. At first, they were speaking to each other in plain old English. But then researchers realized they’d made a mistake in programming.
“There was no reward to sticking to English language,” says Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). As these two agents competed to get the best deal–a very effective bit of AI vs. AI dogfighting researchers have dubbed a “generative adversarial network”–neither was offered any sort of incentive for speaking as a normal person would. So they began to diverge, eventually rearranging legible words into seemingly nonsensical sentences.
“Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” says Batra, speaking to a now-predictable phenomenon that Facebook as observed again, and again, and again. “Like if I say ‘the’ five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands.”
Indeed. Humans have developed unique dialects for everything from trading pork bellies on the floor of the Mercantile Exchange to hunting down terrorists as Seal Team Six...
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcodesign.com ...
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. There is no stopping it.
Of course we should stop it, but we won’t. Those still here will be very, very sorry that they didn’t stop it in 2017 but it will be too late.
How do you say “Skynet” in AI language?
Never saw this movie, eh?
Not alarming. They didn’t invent a language.
Not.
Besides getting shoved naked into pods of green organic goo, then having our neural networks wired together to serve our cyber-masters? Not much.
It’s crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
The only new piece here is the AIs developing their own language — which I find fascinating.
Computers have been been speaking computer-to-computer “talk” since the firth peripherals. ACK/NAK, TCP/IP, EDI, EDE, XML — the progression has been there since the beginning.
I would be interested in understanding the meta-language that created the environment for the language — and the resultant lexicon.
smell ark ark ark sneeze grouper grouper sneeze sneeze
Skynet: Overlords.
I’ve an idea, let’s put the computers in charge of all essential business, like electricity, pipelines, air traffic control, food distribution, water, fighting machines of all types and such. Just think no more stupid human errors. After all what could possibly go (sqweeee click)
Look how far technology has evolved in the past 100 years, then the past 50 years, then the past 25 years, then the past 15 years..........
There is no way to know where we will be 10 or 15 or 20 years from now since technology is increasing exponentially............
Will it be good for mankind? I would say yes if it is kept out of the hands of the government. But then again, there is always the inherent corruption in the private sector too.
While I know I won't be around, I'd love to see what life on this planet will be like 100 years from today..........
I've already seen a lot as did my parents and grandparents before they died.
The Amelia Badelia effect...
been there done that restored the backup
“stranger names for medicines”
I know! Sometimes I feel foolish asking my druggist to fill a script!
My Grandfather used to tell me how amazed he was about what he’d seen in his life. No cars when he was a kid, to jet planes and rockets to the moon!
Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
What a life of wonder he and my grandparents experienced...........And we take it all for granted.
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