Talking Net Agents

from the they're-taking-over... dept

Zakk writes "This scares me! Talking Net bots which develop a language which the researchers can't understand? How far are we from Terminator 2 then?" This article is about a week old, but I hadn't seen it anywhere else. Definitely interesting and points out some of the other potential uses of these talking agents. I'm not exactly worried about a Terminator 2 scenario just yet...
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    Tony, 27 Feb 2001 @ 7:04pm

    Simple Explanation

    They are using genetic algorithms which can produce good results, but with one disadvantage, they way they get to that result may not be understandable and if they stop working you can't really debug them.

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