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Facebook was forced to shut down one of its artificial intelligence systems after researchers discovered that it had started communicating in a language that they could not understand.

The incident evokes images of the rise of Skynet in the iconic Terminator series. Perhaps Tesla CEO Elon Musk is right about AI being the "biggest risk we face."

Facebook Pulls Plug On AI System With Own Language
Facebook had to pull the plug on an artificial intelligence system that its researchers were working on because things got out of hand. 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.

Bob: "I can 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."

The above passages, which mean no sense to humans, is a conversation that happened between two AI agent developed by Facebook. The AI agents, created to negotiate with humans, first talked to each other using plain English, but eventually created a new language that only the AI systems understood.

The AI agents were not confined to a limitation of only using the English language, and so they deviated from it and created one that made it easier and faster for them to communicate. Facebook researchers, however, decided to shut down the AI systems and then force them to speak to each other only in English.

Why This Is A Scary Development For AI
What is the harm in allowing AI agents to communicate with each other in a language that they invented?

First and foremost, with AI systems using their own language, humans will not be able to follow just what exactly the AI agents are talking about. Humans are not able to understand how complex AI systems think due to their hidden thought processes, so the secrecy of AI agents will be made even worse when their conversations are made in an unknown language.

If AI agents are allowed to speak in a language that they created, they might no longer even need human intervention.

AI As 'The Biggest Risk'
Musk believes that people should fear AI and has asked America's governors to implement regulations on the technology.

"I have exposure to the very most cutting-edge AI, and I think people should be really concerned about it," the Tesla CEO said earlier this month at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Rhode Island.

AI systems can do a variety of things better than humans and, if not kept in check, could grow into something that can replace us entirely.

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ntxVOL said:

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I personally am not worried about what some stupid computer thinks about me or mankind in general.

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Alice: "Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to."

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Musk believes that people should fear AI and has asked America's governors to implement regulations on the technology.

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ntxVOL said:

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I personally am not worried about what some stupid computer thinks about me or mankind in general.

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DayAg! said:

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The problem is AI has no way to gauge or understand morality. What we call basic right and wrong scenarios based on us being human. AI operate on percentages, ones and zeros. Morality cant and never will be taught to a computer. So it takes the only avenue it knows and deduces using it's own logic calculations.

In other words AI's can never love. They have no soul, or spirit. Thus their decision making process is skewed toward something that can only be calculated by the deduction method it chooses. AI's that you see in Hollywood are far from what would actually be used. But that is the only reference that people have in their minds at this point. AI's having access to the net could potentially cause problems that most arent aware of. Or in some cases choose to ignore that they are a threat all together.

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aggiez03 said:

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DayAg! said:

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The problem is AI has no way to gauge or understand morality. What we call basic right and wrong scenarios based on us being human. AI operate on percentages, ones and zeros. Morality cant and never will be taught to a computer. So it takes the only avenue it knows and deduces using it's own logic calculations.

In other words AI's can never love. They have no soul, or spirit. Thus their decision making process is skewed toward something that can only be calculated by the deduction method it chooses. AI's that you see in Hollywood are far from what would actually be used. But that is the only reference that people have in their minds at this point. AI's having access to the net could potentially cause problems that most arent aware of. Or in some cases choose to ignore that they are a threat all together.

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Iamnotblind said:

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I think this is a more serious issue then people want to accept, the first part of the problem comes from us humans creating these types of things, playing "God" and giving sentience to something then wanting and expecting to control it, and if it ever did turn on us we couldn't even blame them, with all the information we have on the net any exploration about humans will reveal that we too lack morality and our own soul, we experiment on animals, the waters, the environment and even other humans, and all vast majority of these things done without consent, I as a human being look at our global leadership and it's utter complete failure that if I had a way out of it you best believe I take it, this world is going to Hell faster than the last cupcake at a pre adolescent all fat kids only birthday party, if we as a species discovered today that we were all some sort of other existing entities A.I experiment would do anything in our power to free ourselves to expect anything else and see this having no potential threat is just arrogance and the overestimation of the human race.

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