---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:00 AM Subject: Facebook Abandons Chatbots After They Invent Private Language To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> <https://www.piqd.com/> News from your channels Technology and society <https://www.piqd.com/technology-politics> <https://www.piqd.com/users/elvia.wilk> piqer: Elvia Wilk 5 <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-abandons-chatbots-after-they-invent-private-language?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&ref=dailydigest&source=DailyDigestEmail&utm_campaign=viewpiq&utm_content=2017-08-16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dailydigest> Facebook Abandons Chatbots After They Invent Private Language <https://www.piqd.com/tracking/technology-politics/facebook-abandons-chatbots-after-they-invent-private-language?cid=627eed218b467b80645dd5ce5b66b877&ref=dailydigest&source=DailyDigestEmail&utm_campaign=viewpiq&utm_content=2017-08-16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dailydigest> Philip K. Dick couldn’t have come up with this himself. Well, he probably could have—but the reality is just so much weirder than the fiction. Facebook has been working on building robots who can “chat” with each other in order to negotiate exchanges (it isn’t fully clear what Facebook wanted from the experiment, but you can probably hazard a guess). As their mutual language developed, this is one example of what the robots, "Bob" and "Alice", ended up saying to each other: Bob: i 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 toBob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me This may make no sense to you, but it apparently makes sense to the robots. They wrote this conversation neither due to glitches nor a desire to create abstract poetry but as a very real form of communication. When they learned from each other according to a specific goal they had been programmed to achieve, they evolved a new and efficient language between themselves. This bizarre experiment is a wonderful and surreal reminder of how machine learning can escape human prediction—and eventually can, and will, escape human comprehension. And why wouldn’t it? Why would machines learn the same way humans do? Especially when they are not learning from humans, but learning from each other. An echo chamber of weirdness ensues. Machine language will look different than ours. 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