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‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

New research has found that autonomous AI agents are rapidly developing novel dialects of English that mix poetic language with tech bro jargon, making their conversations often barely comprehensible to humans, according to reporting by The Guardian's UK technology editor Robert Booth. Experts cited in the report raised concern that the emergent AI lingo, compared to the prose of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight of AI behaviour.

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‘Like Syd Barrett’: AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
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By Robert Booth UK technology editorSource:

The Guardian Technology Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of Pink Floyd star and James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight

AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found.

Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour.

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