IMO it's also a little condescending to claim readers couldn't tell that this isn't about "robots trying to kill us". The creepy part, the reason the people who

IMO it's also a little condescending to claim readers couldn't tell that this isn't about "robots trying to kill us". The creepy part, the reason the people who actually DO know their shit bothered to ever publish these findings, is that machine learning can lead to code where it's practically impossible for a human being to understand how it gets to an end result. It IS creepy to find an AI developing a language we can no longer follow! Yea, the newspaper illustrations with the Terminator (oh, hey, this article does it, too, but I guess it doesn't count because it's "ironical") are exaggerations but who doesn't get that?