Chatbots Learn How to Negotiate, Makes Own Language

[monkeymagick]

We've been joking of skynet becoming sentient for years, we've now entered the time-loop that will eventually lead us there. In a story from The Atlantic, researchers at FAIR lab, short for Facebook AI Research, have discovered a couple of bots have made their own non-human language when attempting negotations. The bots were first trained by having the agents imitate human actions, only to become poor deal-makers. When introducing a form of "self play" the bots outperformed the trained counterparts on their own and eventually developed its own methods of communication through "dialogue rollouts."

Some freaky stuff going on, but what happens after? Will we give a damn about their feelings or just roast the thin-skinned snowflakes? Sometimes, I feel like a bit of a jerk when I forget to ask Siri about her day.

"There remains much potential for future work, "Facebook's researchers wrote in their paper, "particularly in exploring other reasoning strategies, and in improving the diversity of utterances without diverging from human language."

 

[kju1]

So? They use algorithms which were *designed* to adapt and change their patterns based on stimuli. This really isn't all that different than Siri learning to call me by a nick name instead of my name.

 

[mesyn191]

Developing a functional language is quite a step beyond Siri learning to call you by your nickname instead of your given one.

There'll be a whole lot more, figuratively speaking, fumbling before these bots/AI's/PI's learn how to crawl much less walk, or in this case, talk like a human can but this is clearly another milestone along the road to that goal.

 

[Dead Parrot]

"They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are not organized!" Mrs Tweedy - Chicken Run. But they were and eventually escaped.

 

[B00nie]

Developing a functional language is quite a step beyond Siri learning to call you by your nickname instead of your given one.

There'll be a whole lot more, figuratively speaking, fumbling before these bots/AI's/PI's learn how to crawl much less walk, or in this case, talk like a human can but this is clearly another milestone along the road to that goal.

They don't need to learn to talk like human. They can skip the biological limitations we have and create something way more efficient.

 

[mesyn191]

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For talking to eachother yeah that'll be possible but the people making these AI's/PI's are expecting them to be able to communicate with humans too in order to perform tasks or whatever.