A few months ago, Facebook in collaboration with artificial intelligence researcher Dhruv Batra, created two robots to develop a machine to negotiate and until then everything was fine. However, this week the company Mark Zuckerberg, decided to disconnect these robots, after discovering that they had created their own language, one incomprehensible to humans.
Faced with the impossibility of understanding the specific message transmitted between Bob and Alice, as the robots were called, and above all, unable to control them, Facebook decided to disconnect the machines and abandon the project.
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The original idea was conceived so that robots could be understood with humans faster and faster, but after a few days of testing, chatbots came to create their own changes in English, which made their work easier, but it was incomprehensible to them. the human beings who had to control them.
The strange discussions arose when Facebook challenged their chatbots to try to negotiate with each other through a trade, trying to exchange hats, balls and books, each of which had a certain value. But it quickly became apparent that the robots began to use a language that each of them understood, but not humans.
The robots had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between them and improve their negotiation as they progressed. But they were not told to use understandable English, which allowed them to create their own shorthand, according to the researchers.
According to the artificial intelligence researcher and project leader, Dhruv Batra:
There are too many useless terms to speak as a normal person would, so they rearranged the words into seemingly absurd phrases to make it a more productive language. Agents drift from understandable language and invent word codes for themselves ... This is not so different from how communities of human beings create shorthand.
What was thought as a novel experiment came out of Facebook's hands, but it showed us that this type of software can go far beyond us. Will they resume the project in the short term?
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