It appears that Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy have figured out how to get robots to develop their own language. Sony has taken this research and applied it to the Aibo. Not sure if it’s this simple, but basicaly you put a couple Aibo in a room, and they’ll start blabbering at each other in a similar nonsense way that human babies do. Over time they learn to understand each other and be able to communicate:

“It sees a ball and it can tell another one where the ball is, if it?s moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it.”

In its simplest fundamental stages, this research seems like a huge advancement in understanding how language is developed. However, you can imagine this technology getting a bit spooky. Do we really want robots and AI talking behind our backs in a language we don’t and, more importantly, physically can’t understand?

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