Facebook’s Bob and Alice experiment became famous because the bots found a weird shortcut that looked nothing like norm…
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Facebook’s Bob and Alice experiment became famous because the bots found a weird shortcut that looked nothing like normal conversation. The project came from FAIR, where researchers were testing whether AI agents could negotiate over simple items like books, hats, and balls. Since the bots were not strictly rewarded for clear English, they started using repeated words as a rough code for quantities and preferences. Researchers stopped that version because the goal was human readable…