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Facebook has temporarily shut down a chatbot experiment after two artificial intelligence creations began communicating in a strange language.
The social media giant was attempting to teach two AIs, dubbed Bob and Alice, the art of negotiation but after leaving the pair alone, researchers at the firm’s artificial intelligence lab found they had deviated from the given script and had invented new phrases on their own.
They were attempting to imitate human speech but created a machine language of their own with no human input, scientists said.
Following the discovery Facebook decided to shut the bots down.
Below is the “out of control” conversation as published by Evening Standard:
Bob: i can 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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 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
Chatbots are usually simple devices used in automated online chats to hold short conversations.
According to researchers, the development allows AIs to negotiate with another party until an agreement is reached such as deciding on the value of an item.