Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other faster and more efficiently than in English, with the hope that groups of models will be able to team up without having to resort to clumsy and sprawling human words. Many researchers believe that using several artificial intelligence models, each with different specialisms and abilities, to solve problems collectively holds promise for tackling thorny problems that individual ones can't solve.

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Meta has announced that it has built and open-sourced'No Language Left Behind' NLLB-200, a single Artificial Intelligence (AI) model that is the first to translate across 200 different languages, including 55 African languages with state-of-the-art results. Meta is using the modelling techniques and learnings from the project to improve and extend translations on Facebook, Instagram, and Wikipedia. In an effort to develop high-quality machine translation capabilities for most of the world's low-resource languages, this single AI model was designed with a focus on African languages. They are challenging from a machine translation perspective. AI models require lots and lots of data to help them learn, and there's not a lot of human-translated training data for these languages.

Something creepy recently happened in the world of technology after an artificial intelligence programme reached the pinnacle of independence by writing its own language. Nobody else is capable of fully understanding the language coined by OpenAI's "DALLE-E2" artificial intelligence system. Its job is to generate realistic and/or artistic images based on text descriptions entered by users. OpenAI claims that DALLE-E2 is groundbreaking, for it effectively "learned the relationship between images and the text used to describe them." While all this sounds riveting, DALLE-E2 is on a secret mission.

It's hard to escape artificial intelligence. 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. The future of that human-tech relationship may one day involve AI systems being able to learn entirely on their own, becoming more efficient, self-supervised and integrated within a variety of applications and professions. But some on social media claim this evolution toward AI autonomy has already happened. "Facebook recently shut down two of its AI robots named Alice & Bob after they started talking to each other in a language they made up," reads a graphic shared July 18 by the Facebook group Scary Stories & Urban Legends.

Back in 2017, the media was frenzying over Facebook's decision to scrap one of its artificial intelligence engines, which was said to have created its own language that could not be understood by humans. AI can sometimes be quirky and suspicious. In the current world technology is not a luxury, but a necessity. AI is one of the most popular of them, which has successfully aided several innovations across all industries. There have been many speculations around this disruptive technology and it has often been looked upon with fear.

The cinematic depictions are pretty clear. From I, Robot to The Terminator series to The Matrix, humans, either wittingly or unwittingly, manage to clash with the machinery that had previously served them. It's a narrative that, like some of our best mythos, puts us at the center of the action and more often than not shows the supremacy of human ingenuity under pressure. Because it's Hollywood, and Hollywood specializes in fictions. Well, at least part of it is a fiction.

Last year, I was in Paris for the International Convention of Psychological Science, one of the most prestigious gatherings in cognitive science. I listened to talks from my field, human reasoning, but I also enjoyed those on ethology, because I find studies on non-human animals, from turtles to parrots, fascinating. Despite their typically small sample sizes, I found the scientific reasoning in the animal-studies talks sounder, and their explanations richer, than the work I heard on human reasoning. The reason is simple: Ethologists evaluate their experimental paradigm, or set-up, in light of its ecological validity, or how well it matches natural surroundings. An animal's true habitat, and its evolutionary history, have always centered the discussion.

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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.