Facebook AI researcher slams 'irresponsible' reports about smart bot experiment

Artificial intelligence researchers in recent days have been speaking out against media reports that dramatize AI research that Facebook conducted. An academic paper that Facebook published in June describes a normal scientific experiment in which researchers got two artificial agents to negotiate with each other in chat messages after being shown conversations of humans negotiating. The agents' improvement gradually performed through trial and error. But in the past week or so, some media outlets have published reports on the work that are alarmist in tone. "Facebook shuts down robots after they invent their own language," London's Telegraph newspaper reported.