Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 64 of 68
A shared language emerging between agents
The aim of the experiment is to investigate how a shared language can emerge as a result of the interactions between agents. Crucially, nowhere in the experiment is language defined; it develops as a result of interactions between the agents. Starting with a blank slate, the agents autonomously develop their own “ontologies” – a sense of being in the world – that allow them to identify and discriminate between objects in the real world.