Anyone who has seen the Terminator knows what a terrifying nemesis a computer can be, especially if left on its own to make decisions. Google may not be looking to transform those fears into a horrifying reality but its recent revelation has made all of just a tad bit more worried.
Researchers at Google have found that their AI system is capable of communicating in a secret language, created by the system itself. They were working on multilingual translations using neural networks but were faced with a significant challenge for scaling the system to work for all of the supported-103 languages.
To tackle this, they proposed a new architecture. They trained a multilingual system with Japanese⇄English and Korean⇄English examples and taught it to translate a text in Japanese is then translated into Korean by using this method. Then they made the system translate between Korean and Japanese without using English as an intermediary, and it worked.
Called “zero-shot translation”, this method yielded fairly reasonable translations between the two languages without ever being taught to do so. This led them to probe further in the systems workings and they concluded that the computer has managed to develop its own internal language to represent the concepts it uses to translate between languages.
There are a lot of questions that still remain unanswered about how Google’s computer was able to do this. A neural network’s inner workings are notoriously complex and even Google’s researchers aren’t quite sure how it managed this.
Search-giant Google is on the forefront of the push towards Artificial Intelligence and has made some incredibly big strides in the field of automation. We may still be far from realizing the full potential of AI, but already, it is helping us in more ways than we could have ever imagined.
Source— Google
So Stephen Hawking is right that Robots are danger to human life in future?
That is awesome actually. but its clear they will find a way to control their internal activity and then push it forward until one day it turns into Megatron. grab your Megan fox.
A self aware consciousness is the basic requirement for intelligence, Without it they are just smart machines built to automate a specific task !! So there is nothing to worry about that.
agreed, self aware consciousness is a very big word for machines for now – but we should not stop worrying about the worst cases once a machine gets to self aware consciousness.
Just me thought.
اگر مشین یہ سوچ لے کہ وہ مشین نہیں ہے وہ بھی فیصلہ کر سکتی ہے اب چاہے وہ فیصلہ صیح ہو یا غلط وہ اس کو صیح سمجھے پھر اسکے بعد دنیا ایک جہنم بن جائے گی جیسا ہم انسان فیصلہ کر تے ہے اور اس کو صیح سمجھتے ہے جب کہ وہ غلط ہوتے ہے
The news was lost in translation. Sign of existence and the actual existence are two different things.