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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Emergent Communication
Date: 8 Nov 2024 14:07:05 GMT
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  So, AI's starting to gab on its own, kind of like how humans
  figured out talking back in the day. It's not that we pro-
  grammed it to yak - these digital dudes are cooking up their
  own lingo to get stuff done! Pretty wild, right? Here's how
  the eggheads are watching this go down:

    - Name-that-thing games: One bot's trying to describe
      something while another's playing 20 Questions.

    - Teamwork makes the dream work: Bots join forces and end
      up shooting the breeze to nail their goals.

    - Mixed-media playground: These silicon valley types are
      learning to jaw about what they see, hear, or whatever.

    - Language evolution in a petri dish: They're basically
      fast-forwarding how words and grammar pop up over time.

  The brainiacs set up these digital obstacle courses where the bots
  got to gab to win. Then they put on their thinking caps to figure out
  what's going on. It's like trying to crack the code of how cavemen
  started yakking.

  The tricky part? These robot languages might be as foreign as
  Martian! So, the language nerds are busting out some serious math
  to make heads or tails of it. 

  This whole shebang could help us chat with E.T. someday or
  get our self-driving Teslas and delivery drones to play nice
  on the 405. Gnarly stuff, if you ask me.