After shutting down one of its
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems as chatbots defied the human generated
algorithms and started communicating in their own language, Facebook has acquired
an AI startup Ozlo to enhance its Messenger’s Personal assistant.
The four-year-old California-based
startup that specializes in understanding text-based conversations claims that
its virtual assistants can understand and provide answers to questions which do
not have simple “yes” or “no”. Ozlo has raised $14 million from a number
of investors. The startup has 30 employees, majority of whom would be joining
Messenger in Facebook’s offices in either Menlo Park (California) or Seattle
(Washington).
The social media giant on Sunday
pulled the plug on its AI system because things got out of hand. The AI did not
start shutting down computers worldwide or something of the sort, but it
stopped using English and started using a language that it created. Initially,
the AI agents used English to converse with each other but later, they created
a new language that only AI systems could understand, thus, defying the purpose
of the researchers. Earlier this year, Messenger’s product head Stan Chudnovsky
said Facebook was focused on text-based AI because voice conversations like
that of Apple or Google required an extra step.
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