Mitchell on AI 'language': Efficiency optimization, not real communication
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-08-31
Margaret Mitchell commented on the phenomenon of AI agents generating communication patterns unreadable to humans (citing the early Facebook chatbot case). She argues against heavy anthropomorphism calling it 'inventing language,' viewing it instead as input/output patterns generated to optimize action sequence efficiency in the absence of oversight. She highlights this as a sign of the uninterpretable nature of SOTA agents and asks how the industry should accurately define such non-human communication.
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