[P2P-F] Fwd: Facebook Abandons Chatbots After They Invent Private Language

[Michel Bauwens]

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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. Perhaps, one can't help but
think, the machines are speaking to each other behind our backs already.

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Source: Andrew Griffin | independent.co.uk on 07/31/2017

Facebook robots shut down after they talk to each other in language only
they understand

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