Facebook had to shut down its own AI experiment after realizing that the robots had invented their own language to talk to each other.
The incident is a another reminder of the slippery slope to a sci-fi Armageddon in which artificial intelligence outsmarts its creators and wreak havoc on the planet.
“[AI] would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate,” says physicist Stephen Hawking, “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”