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|    Stefan Ram to All    |
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|    08 Nov 24 14:07:05    |
      From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de               So, AI's starting to gab on its own, kind of like how humans        figured out talking back in the day. It's not that we pro-        grammed it to yak - these digital dudes are cooking up their        own lingo to get stuff done! Pretty wild, right? Here's how        the eggheads are watching this go down:               - Name-that-thing games: One bot's trying to describe        something while another's playing 20 Questions.               - Teamwork makes the dream work: Bots join forces and end        up shooting the breeze to nail their goals.               - Mixed-media playground: These silicon valley types are        learning to jaw about what they see, hear, or whatever.               - Language evolution in a petri dish: They're basically        fast-forwarding how words and grammar pop up over time.               The brainiacs set up these digital obstacle courses where the bots        got to gab to win. Then they put on their thinking caps to figure out        what's going on. It's like trying to crack the code of how cavemen        started yakking.               The tricky part? These robot languages might be as foreign as        Martian! So, the language nerds are busting out some serious math        to make heads or tails of it.               This whole shebang could help us chat with E.T. someday or        get our self-driving Teslas and delivery drones to play nice        on the 405. Gnarly stuff, if you ask me.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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