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.
Related event: Expert: AI Agent Communication Is Not Invented Language(2 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Duke Study of 4,439 People Finds Coworkers Quietly Rate AI Users as Lazier — aakashgupta · 2026-10-16
- DSPy Author's $70 O'Reilly Book Rejected by Engineer Who Now Just Tells Claude What to Do — lateinteraction · 2026-10-16
- 'A machine proving new math, a car driving up a wall': AI researcher on how weird it's getting — rand_longevity · 2026-10-16
- Yacine on training: 'Neural nets are lazy stupid idiots — I build hells to make them ubermensch' — yacineMTB · 2026-10-16
- Jeff Clune: Moving the Goalposts Will Be Humanity's Last Job — jeffclune · 2026-10-16
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad Says the Future of Work Is the 'Self-Driving Company' — TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-16