Not only are researchers beginning to see how bots could communicate with one another, they may be scratching the surface of how syntax and compositional structure emerged among humans in the first place.īut let’s take a step back for a minute. The implications of this kind of work are dizzying. (Bots don’t need to have corporeal form to engage in non-verbal communication they just engage with what’s called a visual sensory modality.) Another recent preprint paper, from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, and Virginia Tech, describes an experiment in which two bots invent their own communication protocol by discussing and assigning values to colors and shapes-in other words, the researchers write, they witnessed the “automatic emergence of grounded language and communication. In one preprint paper added earlier this year to the research repository arXiv, a pair of computer scientists from the non-profit AI research firm OpenAI wrote about how bots learned to communicate in an abstract language-and how those bots turned to non-verbal communication, the equivalent of human gesturing or pointing, when language communication was unavailable. Perhaps you recall the 2011 YouTube video of two exuberant toddlers chattering back and forth in what sounds like a lively, if inscrutable, dialogue. One way to think about all this is to consider cryptophasia, the name for the phenomenon when twins make up their own secret language, understandable only to them.
(In other cases, researchers adjusted their model and the bots would develop bad strategies for negotiating-even if their conversation remained interpretable by human standards.)
The weird thing is, Facebook’s data shows that conversations like this sometimes still led to successful negotiations between the bots in the end, a spokesperson from the AI lab told me. Alice isn’t budging from her original position, anyway. Not only does this appear to be nonsense, but the bots don’t really seem to be getting anywhere in the negotiation. Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i i i everything else. Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i i i i i everything else. Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me Bob: i. Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me Bob: i i can i i i everything else. Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i everything else.
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