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   Stefan Ram to All   
   Emergent Communication   
   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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