THE PARIS REVIEW

The Truth About AI: A Secular Ghost Story

By Zachary Mason
Zachary Mason is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and a novelist. He lives in California.

December 20, 2018

Some of Facebook’s AIs invented their own language, one incomprehensible to humans, at which Facebook’s researchers panicked and were compelled to pull the plug. At least, this was the story I heard on a Vanity Fair podcast. The host seemed deeply disturbed by the thought of these alien, almost Lovecraftian beings taking shape under the blithe gaze of an amoral tech giant.

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