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Facebook shuts AI system down after it creates its own language

besserheimerphat said:
It's not so different from playing chess, which computers have done really well for a long time now. You give the program an objective (maximize, minimize or optimize some variable), lay down some foundational ground rules, then tell it to do whatever it can within the rules to achieve the objective.
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True. I am curious to what extent they were negotiating. The article made it sound like they were quite shrewd, but then didn't give any details.
 
FerShizzle said:
It very well may have been jibberish, but we may never know.

I'm assuming that is was an alphanumeric language that would make very little sense to a human because it isn't a spoken language. The computers most likely completely broke the rules for how we punctuate, propagate, pluralize, etc. ... along with adding numbers and symbols.

It sound like the computers were talking together to strengthen their English, so I assume that their English skills were lacking at the start. They could have created this tangent language at any point early on that has little basis in English, other than a few words or letters. And it would quickly become unclear where the tangent point was.
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Yeah, trying to train computers by having them interact with each other is bad practice. It's easy for them to identify a pattern that exists in their "partner's" speech but doesn't exist in real language. That pattern gets learned and repeated over and over, and the error grows as the two continue to "learn" from each other.

I've done a little bit of this, trying to teach a computer program to classify warranty claims rather than having a human read claims all day. Without a domain expert (i.e. someone with a lot of experience reading claims) it was impossible. Once that domain expert provided some guidance, telling us what to ignore and where to focus, we got much better results.
 
WalkingCY said:
Even Chuck Norris wouldn't be able to stop this AI:

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We're doomed.
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Well yeah, not if they had an oar apparently.
 
besserheimerphat said:
It's not so different from playing chess, which computers have done really well for a long time now. You give the program an objective (maximize, minimize or optimize some variable), lay down some foundational ground rules, then tell it to do whatever it can within the rules to achieve the objective.
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Nice try skynet. We're not plugging you back in.
 
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CYCLNST8 said:
Honestly- that article scared the **** out of me. I don't like the idea of something other than humans creating their own language. Does self awareness follow?
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Humans might be the last species to use their own language/communication, and although you can't measure it, we've been waving bye-bye to self awareness for many moons.

If something apocalyptic is going to happen, my only request is that it happens relatively soon so I can see it.
 
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