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by 726D7266 1474 days ago
Possibly related: In 2017 AI bots formed a derived shorthand that allowed them to communicate faster: https://www.facebook.com/dhruv.batra.dbatra/posts/1943791229...

> While the idea of AI agents inventing their own language may sound alarming/unexpected to people outside the field, it is a well-established sub-field of AI, with publications dating back decades.

> Simply put, agents in environments attempting to solve a task will often find unintuitive ways to maximize reward.

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Which, to a lessor extent, isn't too terribly different from humans if you think about. We don't use a full new language but every profession has it's own jargon. Some of it spans the whole industry and some is company-specific.
Unintuitive to biased humans. The solutions may actually be super intuitive/efficient, and we just can't wrap our heads around it yet