A Facebook chatbot recently created its own non-human language

Although Facebook's bargain-hunting bots aren't a sign of an imminent singularity -- or anything even approaching that level of sophistication -- they are significant, in part because they prove once again that an important realm we once assumed was solely the domain of humans, language, is definitely a shared space. This discovery also highlights how much we still don't know about the ways that artificial intelligences (AIs) think and learn, even when we create them and model them after ourselves.