Was Facebook right to shut down its AI after it invented its own language? Facebook does not appear to have “shut down an AI” that invented its own language, for example, out of any fear that it would get out of control. Here is a more realistic reporting of Facebook’s AI experiment: A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language. The result was intriguing because it showed the algorithm’s capacity for generating its own encoding scheme, and also showed what can happen with unconstrained feedback in an automated social language product. The algorithm wasn’t “shut down” any more than myriad algorithms are shut down every time engineers change the algorithm.

Source: Huffington Post August 15, 2017 21:11 UTC