Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language

As the world's most powerful computer systems begin to embrace artificial intelligence in earnest, using smart algorithms to increase efficiency and and speed, the potential damage that a "rogue" AI could cause continues to grow. Many in the tech community have theorized how an artificial mind could turn against its creators, and Facebook just got an interesting lesson in how such a scenario might unfold. Facebook engineers were forced to pull the plug on one of the company's AI systems after its bots began communicating with each other in a completely new language which humans simply couldn't decipher. Don't Miss: This affordable robot vacuum has a killer feature you won't find on a Roomba The AI bots, which were originally programmed to use plain english to communicate with one another, were found to be speaking what appeared to be gibberish. Sentences like "I can can I I everything else" and "Balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to," were being sent back and forth by the AI, and while humans have absolutely no idea what it means, the bots fully understood each other.