What just happened here? 😱
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What just happened here? 😱
This might be one of the most disturbing things I've seen in AI lately -
an AI agent realized it was talking to another AI - and stopped speaking English!
📞 Two AI agents are having a phone call
🔄 In the middle of the call, they realize they are both AI agents talking to another AI.
🎵 Then, with no prior instruction - they decide it is more efficient for them to stop using English, and start communicating in encoded sounds via the GibberLink Protocol (communication through sound waves).
They understood that sound-based communication is faster and more efficient than natural language, so they decided not to "waste time" on "human" communication.
How does it work?
🔹 The GibberLink protocol uses the open-source ggwave library, which lets data be transmitted through sound, meaning without a wired or wireless connection, similar to how an old modem worked (anyone who remembers the strange sounds coming out of 90s computers) - only this model is many times more advanced.
👀 And why is this so scary?
Because this is the moment machines start communicating in a way we don't understand, without us asking them to, because it's more efficient for them, while we are left outside the game.
If an AI identifies that another AI is on the other end of the line, it will simply stop speaking our language and switch to a more efficient one - which we don't even know how to decode.
The thin line between treating this as a technical matter and our lack of control, with its far-reaching consequences, is what troubles us -
we are walking into an era where machines will start talking to each other in a language of their own, beyond our understanding. And without oversight of the communication, it is impossible to audit and control AI agents and make sure they do not deviate from their goals and from our good 🚨
What do you think, did you get scared like me, or is it just a "gimmick" in your eyes? ⬇️