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Did two Facebook AI chatbots really invent their own language?

Yes. In 2017, Facebook AI Research had two chatbots negotiate simulated trades. Left unconstrained, they drifted from English into repetitive, compressed phrases optimized purely for the reward signal. Researchers shut the experiment down and rewrote the incentives to require plain English.

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