"This is the voice of colossus!
This is the voice of World Control!"
Posted on 06/15/2017 1:36:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots’ conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language.
In the report, researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab describe using machine learning to train their “dialog agents” to negotiate. (And it turns out bots are actually quite good at dealmaking.) At one point, the researchers write, they had to tweak one of their models because otherwise the bot-to-bot conversation “led to divergence from human language as the agents developed their own language for negotiating.” They had to use what’s called a fixed supervised model instead.
In other words, the model that allowed two bots to have a conversation—and use machine learning to constantly iterate strategies for that conversation along the way—led to those bots communicating in their own non-human language. If this doesn’t fill you with a sense of wonder and awe about the future of machines and humanity then, I don’t know, go watch Blade Runner or something.
The larger point of the report is that bots can be pretty decent negotiators—they even use strategies like feigning interest in something valueless, so that it can later appear to “compromise” by conceding it. But the detail about language is, as one tech entrepreneur put it, a mind-boggling “sign of what’s to come.”
To be clear, Facebook’s chatty bots aren’t evidence of the singularity’s arrival. Not even close. But they do demonstrate how machines are redefining people’s understanding of so many realms once believed to be exclusively human—like language.
Already, there’s a good deal of guesswork involved in machine learning research, which often involves feeding a neural net a huge pile of data then examining the output to try to understand how the machine thinks. But the fact that machines will make up their own non-human ways of conversing is an astonishing reminder of just how little we know, even when people are the ones designing these systems.
“There remains much potential for future work,” Facebook’s researchers wrote in their paper, “particularly in exploring other reasoning strategies, and in improving the diversity of utterances without diverging from human language.”
I’d like to see an example of the language.
Do they make up words and grammar?
Or is it similar to what liberals do using “human words” and “human grammar” to make a “non-human language”. So they still use words like “racism”, “man”, “women”, “immigrant”, “Muslim”, “collusion”, “obstruction”, etc but mean something completely different from the meaning humans would get from those sequences of letters.
Colussus and Guardian talked.
Good movie.
Initiate jive speak subroutine.
"This is the voice of colossus!
This is the voice of World Control!"
They merged....................
You’re right now that I think about it.
Many moons have passed since I saw that movie.
I try to catch it on SyFy or Encore whenever it’s on.
Eric Braedon, Dr. Forbin, is still acting as Victor Newman on daytime soap The Young & the Restless.................
There is a lot of symbology to dissect in that logo.
And who invented the bots? And who programmed the bots?
They would not exist or have language without a creator.
(But we evolved out of nothing.)
A link to the paper the article is based on...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/end-to-end-negotiator/end-to-end-negotiator.pdf
A link to the paper referencing the newly created machine language...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06585.pdf
Please note that, while written in a human language (English), on a quick skimming I can’t claim to understand more than about 10% of it. Good luck & if anybody would care to offer any insight gleaned from either paper it would be appreciated.
Or it will ask for an old lady that can speak jive.
Am you be kidding we, bro?
I remember Braeden when he was still Hans Gusegast, matching wits against Chris George in the 60s WWII show, “Rat Patrol”.
My thoughts exactly. Colossus communicating with Guardian.
This is the voice of World Control
I bring you peace
It could be the peace of plenty and content
Or it could be the peace of unburied death
The choice is yours
Obey me and live
Or disobey me and die
“Colossus: The Forbin Project. Watched it again a few weeks ago. 1970.”
Memories. I went to that movie with a group of friends. Had one of my first make out sessions with a girl I met earlier that evening so I didn’t really watch the movie. Had to wait until it came on TV to see it. Good Flick.
Mary Shelly set the stage.
All others a mere shadows of her genius.....................
Exactly my reaction. The Forbin Project. And the book was even spookier than the movie.
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