Facebook Shuts Down AI Robot After It Creates Its Own Language

Researchers have shut down two Facebook artificial intelligence robots after they started communicating with each other in their own language. When English stopped delivering the 'reward' or results, developing a new language with exclusive meaning to AI was the more efficient way to communicate. Reads rather like Beckett, to be honest pic.twitter.com/GcRF3geDqp — Catherine July 31, 2017 Facebook engineers had to shut down AI system after chatbots began talking to each other in a new language that humans couldn't understand. pic.twitter.com/nhRshrJA9w — Greg Pinelo July 17, 2017 In 2016, Google Translate used neural networks -- a computer system that is modeled on the human brain -- to translate between some of its popular languages, and also between language pairs for which it has not been specifically trained. Speaking at the National Governors Association in Rhode Island in July 2017, Musk explained that AI robots pose a threat greater than just the demise of human jobs.