Let’s just hope the chatbots are gossiping behind our back.
You know that slight anxiousness you feel when two people are negotiating in a language you don’t understand? Well, it turns out that chatbots are able to create their own non-human language to communicate back-and-forth.
This was reported by researchers at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR), who were developing “dialog agents” with the newfound capability of negotiation.In order for bots to communicate more efficiently with other bots, they learned to create their own simple language.
“To go beyond simply trying to imitate people, the FAIR researchers instead allowed the model to achieve the goals of the negotiation. To train the model to achieve its goals, the researchers had the model practice thousands of negotiations against itself, and used reinforcement learning to reward the model when it achieved a good outcome. To prevent the algorithm from developing its own language, it was simultaneously trained to produce humanlike language.“–Deal or no deal? Training AI bots to negotiate
Is This a Big Deal?
On its face, it seems logical that chatbots would create their own language. If one of the major reasons why human language evolved is so we could more effectively convey our desires, it makes sense that bots aiming for efficiency would shortcut human imitation. At the same time, the concept of a non-human language further erodes the uniqueness we may feel as a human (given how central language has been to society’s development).
The findings by the Facebook researchers falls on the heels of research from OpenAI, which in March 2017 reported the ability for bots to create their own language. Similar to the report by FAIR, the researchers found that bots were able to create their own language when going through reinforcement…
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