One of the foremost talked-about questions on Quora in 2017 was – Why did Facebook pack up its own AI after its Bot invented its own language? While most of the web articles you'll find today on this subject are misleading; the important reason may be a far cry from what has been rumored thus far.
Facebook had never packed up its Chatbot only because it started inventing its own language imposing threat that it might get out of control. during this post, we are offering our readers a more realistic report of all that you simply wanted to understand about Facebook’s AI experiment and why it had been pack up.
For those that are still clueless what this post is all about and what had gone wrong with FB, last month the web was abuzz with reports published everywhere about FB shutting down one among its AI programs after it allegedly invented its own language. because the old adage goes – “media is an organized gossip“, the media wrongly publicized the story and blew it answer of proportion.
The unfurling of Facebook’s AI Controversy
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While one page mentioned, “Facebook engineers panic, pull the plug on AI after bots develop their own language,” another site published, “Facebook shuts down AI after it invents its own creepy language.” And another asked, “Did we humans just create Frankenstein?” asked yet one more. As if social media’s scuttlebutt wasn't enough, a famous British tabloid quoted the incident as “the dangers of deferring to AI and will be lethal if the similar tech was injected into military robots.”
As per the reports, one among the Facebook’s AI research program took an unexpected turn, especially when their bots named Bob and Alice got involved in an independent conversation and were seen negotiating when something weird unfurled.
The conversation of Facebook’s AI went like this –
Bob began by saying: “I am I able to I everything else.”
Alice replied: “Balls have zero to me to me to me…”
Bob then reacted: “I I am I able to I I everything else.”
Alice responded: “Balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to.”
Bob continued: “I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .”
Initially, the AI experts at Facebook couldn’t understand what this claptrap was all about. However, after a radical investigation, they might figure out that the AI bots were supposedly communicating during a language which they had invented altogether.
Bob’s statement – “I am I able to I everything else” actually meant – ‘I’ll have three and you've got everything else’. after this self-ruling development in their AI research program, Facebook packs up the whole Chatbot program.
When Elon Musk attacked Mark
While Facebook’s experts were busy deciding what actually had gone wrong, the news had already spread like wildfire. And more fuel was added to the story, when global tech leaders like Elon Musk, founding father of Tesla started criticizing Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg openly. Elon went on to tweet this –
Elon musk tweet FB ai
Immediately after Elon Musk’s Tweet, the social media at large postulated that Facebook packs up its AI the program down after realizing the vulnerability of AI.
The real reason why Facebook pack up its AI
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However, some experts have recently rubbished those rumors such reports and argued that the bots of FB’s AI had never actually invented any new language. Moreover, the neural networks had simply modified the human language, with the intention of creating the interaction more efficient. In their pursuit of data transfer, the bots began conversing back and forth during a derived shorthand manner, which looked creepy to us.
The report now has made it clear that it had been thanks to the error from the programmers’ end, that couldn’t train the bots to speak, following the principles of English. Subsequently, during a bid to find out from one another, the bots found out an efficient thanks to communicating by deriving a shorthand.
Facebook did pack up its AI research program, not because the bots went rogue, but because Facebook lost interest within the research and has put this project on hold.
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