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...
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Have to admit is alarming.
Can’t imagine where this could possibly be 10 years from now?
There is no reward to sticking to Enhlush when programmers in India are writing spaghetti code
What could possibly go wrong?
Bob: John has a long long long long mustache...
Can I mambo dogface to the banana patch.
AIs together strong.
I wonder if AI can understand words like Kek, cuck, and stuned.
Not alarming. They didn’t invent a language. They faithfully executed the instructions they were given. That produced unexpected results which was presented to an uninformed public as a new language.
Many computer programs produce unexpected results. That is known as an “error.” It doesn’t mean the program has a mind of its own. It means the programmer didn’t realize that the instructions he wrote would produce dumb results when carried out literally.
Why can’t we just ask the computer to translate it into English?
Some new age musicians invent their own languages. The Cocteau Twins, Enya, Lisa Gerard from Dead Can Dance, and Azam Ali come to mind. So far they haven’t been seen as a threat.
BFD. Rap ‘artists’ invented language incomprehensible to humans long before AI did.
I don’t know what the researchers thought was going on but it seem like Bob is gonna get some if Alice get off of “balls have zero” mode.
I KNEW Cruz was a bot!
“Klaatu barada nikto!”
“Klaatu barada nikto!”
As long as they don’t start singing “Daisy,” everything will be OK.
Why can’t we just ask the computer to translate it into English?
And if the machines won’t, yes, SHUT THEM DOWN.
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