![]() ![]() Researchers realized they hadn't incentivized the bots to stick to rules of English, so what resulted was seemingly nonsensical dialog. The post's claim that the bots spoke to each other in a made-up language checks out.įacebook observed the language when Alice and Bob were negotiating among themselves. ![]() ![]() Using a game where the two chatbots, as well as human players, bartered virtual items such as books, hats and balls, Alice and Bob demonstrated they could make deals with varying degrees of success, the New Scientist reported. Because chatbots aren't yet capable of more sophisticated functions beyond, say, answering customer questions or ordering food, Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research Group (FAIR) set out to see if these programs could be taught to negotiate. USA TODAY reached out to Scary Stories & Urban Legends for comment.Ĭhatbots are computer programs that mimic human conversations through text. And Facebook didn't shut down Alice and Bob. Facebook did have two AI-powered chatbots named Alice and Bob that learned to communicate with each other in a more efficient way.īut this didn't happen recently. Some elements of this futuristic tale are true. The post, which has more than 1,500 interactions, goes on to claim the two AIs created their language to "communicate faster and more efficiently." Above the text is an image of Han the Robot, which debuted at the RISE Technology Conference in Hong Kong in July 2017. "Facebook recently shut down two of its AI robots named Alice & Bob after they started talking to each other in a language they made up," reads a graphic shared July 18 by the Facebook group Scary Stories & Urban Legends. The future of that human-tech relationship may one day involve AI systems being able to learn entirely on their own, becoming more efficient, self-supervised and integrated within a variety of applications and professions.īut some on social media claim this evolution toward AI autonomy has already happened. From algorithms curating social media feeds to personal assistants on smartphones and home devices, AI has become part of everyday life for millions of people across the world. It's hard to escape artificial intelligence. ![]()
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