AI Languages

[AlexanderHowl]

Back in 2016, Google Translate's AIs were found to have developed their own language that facilitated their activities better than human languages. By 2100, there should be thousands of such languages, each devoted to a particular activity, each developed spontaneously by self-learning AIs. What happens if humans find themselves inhabiting a world where none of them understand the languages used by their technology?

[cptbutton]

I saw that movie! They cut the link and Colossus and Guardian fired nuclear missiles at each other to get them to turn it back on.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

Back in 2016, Google Translate's AIs were found to have developed their own language that facilitated their activities better than human languages. By 2100, there should be thousands of such languages, each devoted to a particular activity, each developed spontaneously by self-learning AIs. What happens if humans find themselves inhabiting a world where none of them understand the languages used by their technology?

Absolutely nothing?

Humans have never understood the "language" used internally by their technology, assuming it has one, or their domestic animals, or even know what their own was (lots of linguistics work on stuff like "generative grammar" gets at that). Being able to see how things "think" internally at all is the new development, not that they don't do it the same way your language leads you believe (probably falsely) you do.

On the practical level any kind of AI capable of developing enough of a social life the question of its language is meaningful is more than good enough to do natural language processing in any human one, and installing language modules in an AI is trivial compared to teaching humans, so it's not like there is a communications problem. Some people make an issue of it being a "secret" language humans can't translate, but hey, AIs could communicate in ASCII encoded English using 8 LEDs flashing too fast for humans to perceive as discontinuous and it'd be equally hopeless for humans to know what they were saying to each other.

[RyanW]

Nothing new under the sun. Members of the (insert ethnic minority) community speak to one another in a language "no one" can understand, and are therefore obviously scheming.