Facebook Bots....The Art Of Negotiation....Lying

Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation....so the AI learned to lie

to be honest... chatbots haven’t progressed beyond asking and answering simple questions but still researchers are still trying to make a perfect digital assistant

 they’ll need more than a dumb user interface to make it so.... they will have to engage in more complex chatter

 Developers are crafting bots that try to do specific things such as helping people book flights or deal with restaurant reservations, but in those jobs both parties have the same goal, which is getting someone on a plane, or finding them a table.

what if they don't want the same thing???

 the Facebook AI Research, which is (FAIR) team forced two bots to learn how to negotiate with one another by presenting them with a bargaining task. 

 they have been programmed to want different things, as each class of object is worth a different number of points to each bot. The goal is for both bots to compromise so that they can both walk away with decent scores. 

 a software system, dubbed dialogue rollouts, to achieve this negotiation has been published online on Wednesday 

 the team used a mixture of supervised learning for the prediction phase and reinforcement learning to help the bots pick which response they should reply with. If the software agents walk away from the negotiation or do not reach an agreement within 10 rounds of dialogue, both receive zero points, so it is to their benefit to broker a deal

 the most interesting tactic to emerge was the ability to lie. Sometimes bots feigned interest in objects they didn’t really want, and then pretended to give them up during the bargaining process 

 The researchers said there were no immediate plans to apply dialogue rollouts to M. But they have opened it up to developers by releasing their negotiation code on GitHub

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