AI agents inventing language? Mitchell clarifies it's undecipherable I/O patterns
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-08-31
Melanie Mitchell links a 2017 piece to draw parallels with modern AI agents. She rejects heavy anthropomorphization of agent-generated I/O patterns as a "language," but acknowledges the relevance: SOTA agents, lacking oversight, generate communication patterns humans cannot read or easily decode to catalyze action sequences.
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