This is getting scary. The amount of AI reports I see popping up is terrifying. I'm not sure why this is what everyone is racing towards. AI that Facebook has been working on started to create their own language to converse with each other. It was a variation of English and when researched realized they couldn't understand their own robots they shut them down.
In a post from Tech Times they mention:
"The AI did not start shutting down computers worldwide or something of the sort, but it stopped using English and started using a language that it created." Initially, the AI agents used English to converse with each other but they later created a new language that only AI systems could understand, thus, defying their purpose."
Facebook then took steps to take the network offline. It appears the robots were editing our language and simplifying it to speed up transaction times. It's crazy to see how they are already able to negotiate to be able to get what they want, even faking interest in something to build up its value just so it can trade it off later.
Using machine learning algorithms, the "dialogue agents" were left to converse freely in an attempt to strengthen their conversational skills. The researchers also found these bots to be "incredibly crafty negotiators. After learning to negotiate, the bots relied on machine learning and advanced strategies in an attempt to improve the outcome of these negotiations," the report said. Over time, the bots became quite skilled at it and even began feigning interest in one item in order to 'sacrifice' it at a later stage in the negotiation as a faux compromise," it added."
I tend to think we as a species really need to understand what we're doing before jumping in full force. With several voices warning of the potentially devastating effects of unleashing AI, such as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates, we need to slow down and regulate and work together to bring AI to reality.
Elon Musk has really been vocal about the speed at which AI is being built and studied and thinks a governing regulating body should be set up to oversee it. I tend to not want government involved in much but I would say that having some kind of oversight would be better than none.
