Facebook’s AI accidentally created its own language | Hacker News Reader

Facebook’s AI accidentally created its own language

thenextweb.com

28 pointsdoener13 comments

Discussed 5 days ago: (107, 16 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554101

Seems the AIs have taken personality of the developer and also their liking to create new language and frameworks.

More background with a nice article: https://s3.amazonaws.com/end-to-end-negotiator/end-to-end-ne...

Unfortunately neither the OP's article nor this one explain anything about the AI's own language. For me this is enough to make the thread a clickbait. However the paper points out the more interesting fact that the model learnt how to deceive in order to achieve its goal. I think it would be hard to demonstrate that the behavior is really deceit and not a result of more "boring" features of the training examples, like let's say - dialogue length, limited use of negations (no, don't, can't, ...) - or a biased input.

Seems like a sizzle article with no steak. Some anonymous quotes, no real evidence presented.

Without any concrete examples its hard to say... but I wouldn't call what they say the AI are doing creating a new language. At most they seem to be going off script, which is creating a new dialog - but a "language" is click-baity and sensationalized.

Call me when the AI bots are talking to each other in a way we can't understand.

Wrote a blog post a couple of days back pointing what's wrong with this kind of articles: https://rajat503.github.io/blog/post/ai-in-perspective/

It's really hard to read your article when your text is justified rather than left aligned. I immediately gave up.

Fixed it, thanks!

The title is a gross exageration.

If you read the actual paper, you'l find that it's not a new language, but merely "meaningful novel sentences" in English.

That is, instead of merely reusing sentences found in the training data, the model generates new ones, some of the time.

When this is indeed true, the creators of the AI should make it so that they can't write software so that they don't put themselves out of a job :)

They'll still be need for human AI mechanics when things break down.

Paging cstross...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com