Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Facebook Bargaining Bots Invented a Language
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• Published: 2019-06-21 18:21

In 2017, Facebook published a paper called Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (which could be called a language) that made them able to optimize their scores in the negotiation game. Many media sources reported this as if it were a first step towards Skynet taking over. In this episode, Kyle discusses bargaining agents and the actual results of this research.