In July 2017, an engineer at the Facebook Company discovered a chilling scene during a project involving an auto-reply assistant for the social network:
The AI bots in the experimental project, Bob and Alice, had actually begun conversing in a brand-new language that humans couldn't understand! (There are many related reports online. Although Facebook denied it, this remains questionable, for your information.)
The Facebook Company immediately shut down the two AIs, and even the entire project, and issued a public denial to the media, claiming it was merely because a reward mechanism for learning English hadn't been set.
But it wasn't that simple.
The Pentagon acquired these two AIs, along with the Google Company's AlphaGo, and combined them with several of its own self-developed AIs, forming the foundation of an entire AI-based defense control system, codenamed "Poseidon."
