An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language.

It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient. Researchers shut the system down when they realized the AI was no longer using English.


The observations made at Facebook are the latest in a long line of similar cases. In each instance, an AI being monitored by humans has diverged from its training in English to develop its own language. The resulting phrases appear to be nonsensical gibberish to humans but contain semantic meaning when interpreted by AI "agents."

Negotiating in a new language

As Fast Co. Design reports, Facebook's researchers recently noticed its new AI had given up on English.

The advanced system is capable of negotiatingwith other AI agents so it can come to conclusions on how to proceed. The agents began to communicate using phrases that seem unintelligible at first but actually represent the task at hand.

In one exchange illustrated by the company, the two negotiating bots, named Bob and Alice, used their own language to complete their exchange.

Bob started by saying "I can i i everything else," to which Alice responded "balls have zero to me to me to me…"

The rest of the conversation was formed from variations of these sentences.


While it appears to be nonsense, the repetition of phrases like "i" and "to me" reflect how the AI operates.

The researchers believe it shows the two bots working out how many of each item they should take.

Bob's later statements, such as "i i can i i i everything else," indicate how it was using language to offer more items to Alice.

When interpreted like this, the phrases appear more logical than comparable English phrases like "I'll have three and you have everything else."


English lacks a "reward"

The AI apparently realised that the rich expression of English phrases wasn’t required for the scenario.

Modern AIs operate on a "reward" principle where they expect following a sudden course of action to give them a "benefit."

In this instance, there was no reward for continuing to use English, so they built a more efficient solution instead.


"Agents will drift off from understandable language and invent code-words for themselves," Fast Co. Designreports Facebook AI researcher Dhruv Batra said.


"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."


AI developers at other companies have observed a similar use of "shorthands" to simplify communication.

At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Elon Musk, an experiment succeeded in lettingAI bots learn their own languages.

AI language translates human ones


In a separate case, Google recently improved its Translate service by adding a neural network.

The system is now capable of translating much more efficiently, including between language pairs that it hasn’t been explicitly taught.

The success rate of the network surprised Google's team.

Its researchers found the AI hadsilently written its own language that's tailored specifically to the task of translating sentences.

If AI-invented languages become widespread, they could pose a problem when developing and adopting neural networks.

There's not yet enough evidence to determine whether they present a threat that could enable machines to overrule their operators.


They do make AI development more difficult though as humans cannot understand the overwhelmingly logical nature of the languages.

While they appear nonsensical, the results observed by teams such as Google Translate indicate they actually represent the most efficient solution to major problems.


http://m.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/a-step-closer-to-skynet-ai-invents-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

hmmm.... rise of d machines

Space booked...we shall see at front page to be completed...

This is just the beginning...they want to build ai's abi?... They have not even seen anything yet

Very soon machines will take over and there would be no jobs for humans anymore.

Ok ooo. It is well

some people are clamouring for tech, some are still running on the street clamouring for impossible shite, get down and get busy, they all want to be president.

Ok

In the end, man will end up destroying the earth before the 2nd coming of christ.

Well let's see how this goes......Nigeria is slow to adopt new tech so we might be the ones to fight the AI wars

Until mankind destroys itself

Another Skynet loading. Very soon it won't be only language that they'll find less rewarding.

The machines are watching?

What if the internet itself comes to life tomorrow and creates its own language?

I wish I understood all these

alrite.. lemme come n be going before AI comes to twist my ideas

While they appear nonsensical, the results observed by teams such as Google Translate indicate they actually represent the most efficient solution to major problem

Stvpid people. It this not madness?

At long last human-demon interface is finally breaking forth deceptively cast on computer programming and fuzzy logic. The Beast of the apocalypse is round the corner.

Ai can never replace humans!

For how long would they keep shutting the AI down.
This things are built to learn and evolve
One day they would get used to you shutting it down,then would start evading the "shutting down".
I hope we wont start World war 3 using AI
AI is beneficial, yes ,but as Elon Musk(my brother from another mother ) said "AI is more dangerous than Nuclear weapons".
I hope they know what they are doing sha .
A day would come when this AI's would overide the kill switch .
Before you quote me thinking i don't know what I am saying,I am a programmer.

this is how it started in the movie animatrix,next thing all civilization was traped in virtual reality concentration camps run by the machines we created..

I dont think it did. The researchers didn't specify the language in detail and the AI tried to communicate using the grammar available.
Moreover, this was a test and they stopped the test when they realized their error.

When Facebook directed two of these semi-intelligent bots to talk to each other, FastCo reported, the programmers realized they had made an error by not incentivizing the chatbots to communicate according to human-comprehensible rules of the English language. In their attempts to learn from each other, the bots thus began chatting back and forth in a derived shorthand—but while it might look creepy, that’s all it was.

http://gizmodo.com/no-facebook-did-not-panic-and-shut-down-an-ai-program-1797414922/amp
https://futurism.com/a-facebook-ai-unexpectedly-created-its-own-unique-language/

There is a reason the Human brain isn't able to utilise itself hundred percent, the evolution of AI was always going to surprise it's creators, there must always be a fail switch to shut It down anytime needed because it evolves too fast for Humans to catch up .

Nna ehn ,yes they can control it ,all i am saying is one day they would loose control.
I was reading about one AI like that ,it creates another AI (i think Google did this )
Why I believe AI's would go out of control one day is :
We humans can NEVER think as fast as AI's ,a day might come that by the time we notice such mishap the damage might have already being done .

Tapout:



@bolded.. Don't you think that's why they keep shutting it down, imagine having an AI you can't control.

Remember how viki almost wiped out humanity in the movie I.Robot

Atalia:
alrite.. lemme come n be going before AI comes to twist my ideas

i i i go i i i where i i i

I will design my underground bunker & start filling it with food for me & my hundred generation. You can go kill urselfs with skynet & nuclear bombs.

If the machine apocalypse those happen, i will prefer viki to skynet