Researchers have shut down two Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) robots after they started communicating with each other in their own language. The robots, nicknamed Bob and Alice, were originally communicating in English, when they swapped to what initially appeared to be gibberish.

A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) is a free software chatbot created in AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language), an open, minimalist, stimulus-response language for creating bot personalities like A.L.I.C.E….

Regretfully it is not a human body, Alice is a cyborg. Her body is composed of a metallic skeleton covered with very advanced silicon skin, it features tears, and sweating capabilities.

Google said Thursday that it’s pulling the plug on its newly announced artificial intelligence ethics council, after more than a week of outcry over some of the members the search giant had chosen for the group. …

It was a human error from the programmers’ end for which the bots were not able to communicate properly, following the rules of English grammar. Facebook did shut down its AI research program, but it was not because the bots had gone awry, but they had actually finished the experiment.

Facebook did shut down its AI research program, not because the bots went rogue, but because Facebook lost interest in the research and has put this project on hold.

In cryptography, Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic protocols or systems, and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment.

Yes, robots will replace humans for many jobs, just as innovative farming equipment replaced humans and horses during the industrial revolution. Factory floors deploy robots that are increasingly driven by machine learning algorithms such that they can adjust to people working alongside them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the attempt to let computers perform services for which humans need intelligence. However, this is still not possible today. AI systems are capable of recognizing patterns, learning and making decisions. …

However, a machine could be motivated to take over the world as a rational means toward attaining its ultimate goals; taking over the world would both increase its access to resources, and would help to prevent other agents from stopping the machine’s plans.