“The group had a code the lingo was known!
Listen and understand don’t need no phone!
Then the pair came and went off the mark!
What they spoke kept everyone in the dark!”
You are with a bunch of people and suddenly couple of them start talking in their native language! If they know that you do not know that language then rest assured; you are being excluded!
Imagine this happening and then I will tell you about FB’s greatest secret (open that is!); names Alice and Bob!
Rest assured, it is interesting!
read on!
The advantage of being a polyglot is that even if people want to exclude you it is difficult!
When I joined the Medical College, during our initial interactions with the seniors I used to tell them that I was a Tamilian which is true of course! But the added point is that I am a Palakkad Tamilian which is actually a mixture of Tamil and Malayalam!
So I may not able to speak like a malayalee but I could understand everything! Even when I pretended to have a cough spasm on their smoking and they were discussing whether I was ‘acting’ or not!
In school also, when kids get to know that I am from south or a ‘madrassi!’ and speak in Hindi so that I do not understand! It never worked!
Then a couple of friends used to chat in Marathi which I used to find difficult to understand but still could manage!
The very fact that you have a group of people and if couple of them start talking in a language that only they understand is of course rude! When this happens it is natural that the ones who are being excluded would have the feeling that they are the ones who are being targeted!
It is natural to think that when they cannot understand the lingo, the whole world is talking about them! This is because the most important person in the world for you is…drum roll please!…YOU!
Now imagine this happening to the engineers who actually invented these chatbots!
This is what happened in Facebook! Alice and Bob were actually Facebook’s artificially intelligent chatbots that were shut down after they started talking to each other in a language that they invented!
So Facebook challenged its chatbots to try to negotiate with each other over a trade – a reasonably benign task that we will probably assign to machines in the near future!
Quickly, the bots, Alice and Bob, appeared to chat at each other in a strange language that was mostly incomprehensible to humans!
The dialogue was not simply a glitch in the way the messages were read out. The way the chatbots kept stressing their own name appeared to have mathematical significance, making it part of their negotiation method!
The bots managed to cut some deals which indicated that they might have formed a kind of shorthand that allowed them to talk more effectively – good for the task at hand, but creepy for the rest of the engineers who could not figure out this interesting mutation in language skills that Bob and Alice seemed to have invented in no time at all!
I have reproduced the chats as it was!
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
Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me
Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i i i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to Bob: you i 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
Of course the engineers reached out the kill switch and shut them down!
If you could understand what they were speaking about then please let us know! Also if you could understand them then there is a high possibility that you are also an AI! If you are not then try to tell the original song of the birthday celebrity Anu Mallik called Roop Suhana lagta hain!
Now try to speak to humans and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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