Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language

Published: June 21, 2019, 4:21 p.m.

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In 2017, Facebook published a paper called\\xa0Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (which could be called a language) that made them able to optimize their scores in the negotiation game. Many media sources reported this as if it were a first step towards Skynet taking over. In this episode, Kyle discusses bargaining agents and the actual results of this research.

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