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 efficiencyand perhaps, hidden nuancethan 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 theyd 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 deala very effective bit of AI vs. AI dogfighting researchers have dubbed a generative adversarial networkneither 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 isnt 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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“And we take it all for granted.”
But we do have the computer revolution!
There are potential dangers to AI, as people like Elon Musk will tell you. But ultimately, it seems to be impossible to invent a meaning processor, and as long as we can’t do that, we’re one step ahead of AI.
There will be billions of "to me" repetitions. Useless loops tend to do that.
Hey, did you hear about the Cray? It came out of an infinite loop in just five minutes.
It used to be a language called GIGO.
It is called a spirit. God still holds the patent.
These articles show one thing for sure....people watch and believe Hollywood way too much.
It is starting to make sense:
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.
Obama: “I me me me I me I me me me racism me me I I I me I I I I I I.”
Brother bought a coconut
He bought it for a dime.
His sister had another one *
She paid it for the lime.
She put the lime in the coconut
she drank them both up.
she put the lime in the coconut
She called the doctor, woke him up, and said *
“Doctor, ain’t there nothing I can take”
I said, “Doctor, to relieve this belly ache?”
I said, “Doctor ain’t there nothing I can take”
I said, “Doctor”
No!!! Not the ‘firth protocols’ why would you even mention those in this setting?
That was the movie that immediately popped into my head.
My son calls them SkyNet.
I'm beginning to understand why. I have quite a few capabilities built into mine and they've become an intricate part of my life and how I manage it. I'm starting to discover that I'm "thinking less" about my day and relying on Alexa to tell me/remind me when I need to do things.
Oh boy, she's taking over....... I get it now!
Who's to say that's not already the case and that you and I are having this conversation on a forum in an alternate reality created by a Mainframe?
Would you like the blue pill or the red pill?
Well this is the first time I’ve seen the actual conversation, and that doesn’t look like a “new language” to me.. Looks more like the bot doesn’t understand proper grammar and is looping too much too much.
“It means the programmer didnt realize that the instructions he wrote would produce dumb results when carried out literally.”
Most people literally don’t seem to understand the meaning of the word literal.
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