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In an early AI experiment Facebook gave two AIs language so they could talk to each other. The AI quickly learned to communicate in a language the researchers couldn’t understand. Facebook pulled the plug.

Guess the military didn’t get the memo.

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Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
> communicate in a language the researchers couldn’t understand

The AI was speaking Dutch?

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- treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They invented their own machine language. The AI (and I know you’re jesting).
  
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Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Might you have a link to an article about that? I’d be interesting in learning more, because it sounds a bit like an urban legend of the net.

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- treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/8040006002/
  
  So it did happen but Facebook didn’t shut the experiment down, but rather they changed the experiment parameters so the bots would stop using their own language.
  
  The article I read said they shutdown the experiment. So, the article wasn’t 100% accurate and the article I read was published in late 2018 or early 2019. So, it was either recycled news or the experiment lasted several years before the bots made up their own language. As the experiment was started in 2017, according to the fact check article linked above.
  
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  - Geek_King@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you, I appreciate it!
    
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- treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I read it in a reputable newspaper and it was a tiny blurb. I’ll see if I can find something more substantial than my memory for you.
  
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