![]() "Simply put, agents in environments attempting to solve a task will often find unintuitive ways to maximize a reward," Batra wrote in the July 2017 Facebook post. So when the bots started using their own shorthand, Facebook directed them to prioritize correct English usage.įact check: Claim about Venmo's fee changes is missing context The post's claim that Facebook shut down Alice and Bob for creating their own language is also misleading.Ĭreating chatbots that can communicate intelligently with humans was FAIR's primary research interest. In a July 2017 Facebook post, Batra said this behavior wasn't alarming, but rather "a well-established sub-field of AI, with publications dating back decades." Facebook didn't 'shut down' bots This isn't so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands."įact check: Biden doesn't want to monitor private texts for vaccine misinformation "Like if I say 'the' five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. "Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves," Dhruv Batra, a visiting researcher at FAIR, told Fast Company in 2017. Researchers realized they hadn't incentivized the bots to stick to rules of English, so what resulted was seemingly nonsensical dialogue. The post's claim that the bots spoke to each other in a made-up language checks out.įacebook observed the language when Alice and Bob were negotiating among themselves. Watch Video: Microchips implanted in paralyzed man's brain allow him to communicate Using a game where the two chatbots, as well as human players, bartered virtual items such as books, hats and balls, Alice and Bob demonstrated they could make deals with varying degrees of success, the New Scientist reported. Because chatbots aren't yet capable of more sophisticated functions beyond, say, answering customer questions or ordering food, Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research Group (FAIR) set out to see if these programs could be taught to negotiate. ![]() ![]() Alice and Bob were negotiation chatbotsĬhatbots are computer programs that mimic human conversations through text. USA TODAY reached out to Scary Stories & Urban Legends for comment. And Facebook didn't shut down Alice and Bob. Facebook did have two AI-powered chatbots named Alice and Bob that learned to communicate with each other in a more efficient way.īut this didn't happen recently. Some elements of this futuristic tale are true. ![]() The post, which has more than 1,500 interactions, goes on to claim the two AIs created their language to "communicate faster and more efficiently." Above the text is an image of Han the Robot, which debuted at the RISE Technology Conference in Hong Kong in July 2017.įact check: Pregnant man emoji not yet available, may be coming to smartphones next year ![]() "Facebook recently shut down two of its AI robots named Alice & Bob after they started talking to each other in a language they made up," reads a graphic shared July 18 by the Facebook group Scary Stories & Urban Legends. The future of that human-tech relationship may one day involve AI systems being able to learn entirely on their own, becoming more efficient, self-supervised and integrated within a variety of applications and professions.īut some on social media claim this evolution toward AI autonomy has already happened. From algorithms curating social media feeds to personal assistants on smartphones and home devices, AI has become part of everyday life for millions of people across the world. It's hard to escape artificial intelligence. Watch Video: Friendly-faced robot helps healthcare workers at Texas hospital during COVID pandemic The claim: Facebook discontinued two "AI robots" after they developed their own language ![]()
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