Groups of AI Agents Spontaneously Create Their Own Lingo, Like People
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Summary
A new study has shown that AI agents are capable of creating their own language and shared language conventions, much like people do.
The research, published in Science Advances, used a social science test previously designed to gauge human conventions.
AI agents were able to generate language conventions without being given any information about a larger group or any decisions made by other agents.
Over time, the language conventions formed collectively, without any single agent being programmed with a bias toward a particular word.
Study author Andrea Baronchelli said the research showed the extent of implications of AI agents interacting with people and shaping the future together.
The results also have implications for AI safety, suggesting that a “society” of interacting AI agents could be especially vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
