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Facebook kills AI that invented its own language because English was slow
.pcgamer.com ^ | Paul Lilly

Posted on 07/30/2017 9:17:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The AI was trained in English but apparently had grown fed up with the various nuances and inconsistencies. Rather than continue down that path, it developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient.

What spooked the researchers is that the phrases used by the AI seemed like gibberish and were unintelligible to them, but made perfect sense to AI agents. This allowed the AI agents to communicate with one another without the researchers knowing what information was being shared.

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AI technologies use a "reward" system in which they expect of a course of action to have a "benefit."

"There was no reward to sticking to English language," Dhruv Batra, a research scientists from Georgia Tech who was at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), told Fast Co. Design. "Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves. 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."

Facebook ultimately determined that it wanted its bots to speak in plain English, in part because the interest was in making bots that can talk with people. However, researchers at Facebook also admitted that they can't truly understand languages invented by AI.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; skynet
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To: BenLurkin

Helping FB find me with secret new language.
FUFB


21 posted on 07/30/2017 1:43:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Chode

Did you see the JURASSIC PARK flick?
The plot was that the rich old fart behind the park idea was cloning T-Rexes and Velociraptors. He was keeping the sexes separate so THEY couldn’t multiply. Except, he used bi-sexual frog DNA to fill in gaps, so the T-Rexes, etc. started multiplying and got out of control, anyhow. Don’t mess with nature.


22 posted on 07/30/2017 3:47:21 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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To: Tucker39
yeah, the law of unintended consequences strikes again
23 posted on 07/30/2017 3:58:54 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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