No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart. In recent weeks, a story about experimental Facebook machine learning research has been circulating with increasingly panicky, Skynet esque headlines. Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language, one site wrote. Facebook shuts down down AI after it invents its own creepy language, another added. Did we humans just create Frankenstein asked yet another. One British tabloid quoted a robotics professor saying the incident showed the dangers of deferring to artificial intelligence and could be lethal if similar tech was injected into military robots. References to the coming robot revolution, killer droids, malicious AIs and human extermination abounded, some more or less serious than others. Continually quoted was this passage, in which two Facebook chat bots had learned to talk to each other in what is admittedly a pretty creepy way. Bob I 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 Bob you i everything else. Alice balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me. The reality is somewhat more prosaic. A few weeks ago, Fast. Co Design did report on a Facebook effort to develop a generative adversarial network for the purpose of developing negotiation software.
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