What an AI's Non-Human Language Actually Looks Like
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Something unexpected happened recently at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab. Researchers who had been training bots to negotiate with one another realized that the bots, left to their own devices, started communicating in a non-human language.
In order to actually follow what the bots were saying, the researchers had to tweak their model, limiting the machines to a conversation humans could understand. (They want bots to stick to human languages because eventually they want those bots to be able to converse with human Facebook users.) When , lots of people reacted with some degree of trepidatious wonder. Machines making up their own language is really cool, sure, but isn’t
