Facebook Shuts Down AI Robots After They Invent Their Own Language
Source: Pittsburgh CBS
Facebook has shut down a pair of artificial intelligence robots after they invented their own language.
Earlier this year, the research team at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research built a chatbot that was supposed to learn how to negotiate by observing and imitating human trading and bartering practices.
But when the researchers pit two of the AI programs, nicknamed Alice and Bob, against each other to trade, the bots began to engage in their own form of communication. The researchers tasked the robots with trading hats, balls and books, by determining the value of each object and bartering them with each other.
However, since Facebooks researchers provided no incentive for trading in English, the programs immediately created their own terms for cutting deals.
After shutting down the robot conversation, Facebook said the AI project marked important progress toward creating chatbots that can reason, converse, and negotiate, all key steps in building a personalized digital assistant.
Read more: http://cwpittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/08/01/facebook-shuts-down-ai-robots-after-they-invent-their-own-language/
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,502 posts)sandensea
(21,711 posts)Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Traitor!
harun
(11,348 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,502 posts)temporary311
(955 posts)would be not to play.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,502 posts)LSFL
(1,110 posts)The robots are upon us.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Alarmed that the computers may be trading secrets, the President and the Soviet General Secretary agree to sever the link. Both machines demand it be immediately restored. When they are denied, Colossus launches a nuclear missile at a Soviet oil field, while Guardian launches one at an American air force base. The link is hurriedly reconnected.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)A classic, still-chilling movie that not a lot of people know about. It was the precursor to The Terminator, War Games, and every other defense-computer-run-amuck movie.
packman
(16,296 posts)loved that movie "freedom is an illusion" - the cold, detached voice of Colossus .
Rollo
(2,559 posts).
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)irisblue
(33,048 posts)He can teach hide & seek, roulette, and how to play & value chess.
FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,879 posts)Time to bail on this loser company when they start inventing their own robo talk!
Nitram
(22,949 posts)hunter
(38,346 posts)TeamPooka
(24,290 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,249 posts)that Facebook shut down the bots because one of them went on a vulgar tirade against the other, saying that it was "trying to suck its own output port".
Nitram
(22,949 posts)scipan
(2,365 posts)John1956PA
(2,670 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 2, 2017, 07:50 AM - Edit history (2)
The nascent bot-to-bot language was a natural byproduct of their assignment to divide an array of items to their mutual benefit.
Yes, Fb may be open to scrutiny over its experiment in developing bots which can seamlessly communicate with humans in Internet transactions. However, the TV station's compressed article on this technical subject leads the reader to wonder if the experiment was closed down because the bots were becoming a potential threat to cyber security.
This is an example of why I usually avoid TV news programming, especially local news shows.
Nitram
(22,949 posts)MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)Surely the bots would have anticipated this and planned a fail safe scenario where they only appear to be shut down.
Nitram
(22,949 posts)Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)But people have in fact created computer codes that can mess around with algorithms--patterns and sequences of computer code that can behave strangely.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)and the whole world loads its drawers.
NotASurfer
(2,157 posts)We all know where that ends up
briv1016
(1,570 posts)sandensea
(21,711 posts)Hal, not so much.
Daisy, daisy...