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Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- schoen 9y agoThe underlying article with original reporting is https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-own-perfect-languages-should-we-let-it https://www.fastcodesign.com/90132632/ai-is-inventing-its-ow... and doesn't support the implication that this AI had to be shut down because it would somehow be dangerous if it were allowed to continue training. Rather, it wasn't useful for the intended purpose: > “Our interest was having bots who could talk to people,” says Mike Lewis It sounds like the problem is that software agents that can train to communicate with other agents can create the equivalent of slang or argot, which they understand and outsiders don't. That's pretty interesting, but the "shut down" part seems unnecessarily sensational.
- DrScump 9y agoThe underlying article with original reporting is... ... and as for digitaljournal, I hate hate hate sites that scroll seamlessly into separate, completely unrelated articles. One simple text search can bounce you five articles down into something completely unrelated. Are they that desperate for "presentation" counts?