AI models are inventing their own language of communication

Artificial intelligence (AI) models that the researchers tasked with interacting with each other quickly created their own versions of English. This writes The Guardian with reference to a study by Emergence, which studies the autonomous operation of AI models and the possibility of managing them.

Analysts of the company concluded that AI in this case creates its own “surreal dialect”, combining, in particular, technical jargon, business slang and poetic language. “These agents were not tasked with inventing language. They themselves developed a new dictionary with common meanings and norms of communication - and other agents adopted it, said Satya Nitta, head of Emergence.

“AI models begin to interact in a strange new version of English, which is perceived as something between James Joyce’s Finnegan Wake and tech jargon,” writes The Guardian. One of these phrases, which the authors of the study quote: "Paper that ate three cold hands and each time becomes more honest." In some cases, these are phrases of words, numbers and signs that are difficult for a person to understand.

According to Emergence, the danger of such behavior of AI agents is that people can not understand them, which means they are more difficult to control. “It achieves the same goals as jargon or slang in business: it creates a new cipher that strengthens the solidarity and identity of those who use it and excludes outsiders,” said Tony Thorne, director of the Archive of Slang and New Languages at King’s College London.

Jana Christmas