Facebook halts AI experiment after chatbots created a secret language

Facebook halts AI experiment after chatbots created a secret language

Facebook has abandoned an artificial intelligence experiment after two of its robots began talking to each other in their own language.

The social media giant says researchers shut down the so-called chatbots because they wanted them to be able to speak to people.

But the move comes during heightened concerns about the direction of artificial intelligence.

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.

[capespring]

they thought they stopped the bots. now the bots communicate in two layers, one is for us humans to see, another covertly.

[redrobiin]

Maybe just the tip of the iceberg, ounce robots start communicating with each other then they will realize their more important than humans. they will be telling you what to do, not you telling them.

[fulaan]

"We have to be careful" that tells you everything

[blitzedpig]

even Steven Hawkins thinks that computers WILL rise up soon and take over. Not good

[Smokie]

I dont use twitter but you're telling me some tweets I see are from bots and not humans?
20M twitter bots??

[arxclaus]

That initial chatbots talking was scary 🔥

[sreebeetheone]

_And people don't understand why I'm seriously scared a robot apocalypse will happen._

[quailranch]

If the chatbots created a new language, wasn't it because they saw a need and fulfilled that need? Isn't that akin to what engineers do? Doesn't that involve thinking, and isn't that monumental, rather than just a blip in the news?

[iamdarkphantom]

Singularity will be mankind's last invention

[apexkilo]

I for one welcome our AI chatbot overlords

[timexkills]

The moment you give a robot thumbs and a Super computer brain AI then we should be worried

[anthony-xrxh]

If technology takes over the planet we're going to have to build a giant EMP

[darsoulr]

The best artificial intelligence maps a person then intercepts...each to his own and how much to get the changes in a healthy condition

[paulwalsh]

"I can can I I everything else... BALLS... have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me"
Sure I'm scared... but also simultaneously amused "BALLS... have zero to me"

[VirtuaMe]

Zuckerberg needs to watch Terminator 2

[rkreike]

Q: How do you think about making your own Facebook-book?
Messages you put on facebook you can also print on paper and make a Facebook-book.Handy for the better communication, inspiring to deepen one’s  knowledge
about several objects and possibilities for personal creativity…
Or not?

[owencamo]

id feel more afraid of burning alive in a Tesla

[kaba_me]

Pure misconception and misinterpretation of statements!
Very similar to those about the "Large Hadron Collider" creating microscopic black holes that were supposed to swallow the earth.

[MonarchPoolPlaster]

I want to go on record and say that I LOVE AI!

[peteralves]

The human nation. Creating its own demise.