Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret language

On the downside, it's just a loop of Bender saying, "Kill all humans." Kidding aside though, the last bits of the article seem to spell out a future in which, for better or worse, we don't really understand what's under the hood, completely. What exactly is the implication, crazy extremes aside, of systems which essentially build their own black boxes?

This is flagged as a [dupe]; it would be useful to have automated links to the previous discussion in HN, maybe in the [dupe] tag.

I'll now go search for the previous discussion. The "past" link does not yield any results, and even searching for the TC URL does not find it.

But is it coördinate or compound multilingualism?