Real Reason Why Facebook Shut Down Its Ai
“Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” Dhruv Batra, a visiting researcher at FAIR, told Fast Company in 2017. “Like if I say ‘the’ five times, you interpret that to mean I want five copies of this item. This isn’t so different from the way communities of humans create shorthands.” From algorithms curating social media feeds to personal assistants on smartphones and home devices, AI has become part of everyday life for millions of people across the world. I’ve started to see new chatbot builders enter the industry that have niche offerings. Instead of being able to build full-feature bots, they are providing a platform to do a smaller niche process, and do it exceptionally well. I’ve always been a proponent, in bot building, of having your bot admit upfront that it actually is a bot. Already, there’s a good deal of guesswork involved in machine…