Facebook AI Robots Shut Down

Facebook's AI switched off by scientists after it created its own code words.

10:12 01 August 2017

Scientists have switched off Facebook’s AI-powered machines, nicknamed Bob and Alice, after they started communicating with one another using their own make up code words. According to the New Scientist, the so-called ‘neutral network’ started translating phrases easier using its own language.

 

In a report, Bob said: ‘I can i i everything else’.

 

To which Alice replied: ‘balls have zero to me to me to me…’

 

It is thought that the robots were trying to resolve problems they had encountered because ‘I’ and ‘to me’ reflects problems one AI is having and the response from a so-called ‘negotiating agent’.

 

‘There was no reward to sticking to English language,’ Georgia Tech scientist Dhruv Batra told Fast Co. Design.

 

‘If I say “the” five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands’.

 

Elon Musk had only a few days ago critised Mark Zuckerberg for having a "limited" understanding of Artifical Intelligence.