Facebook developed several artificial intelligence systems throughout the company's existence, but one of them had the potential to seriously affect the company's activity. More precisely, we are talking about an artificial intelligence system developed by Facebook engineers that created its own language that people could not understand, which was used for communication between various servers.
Facebook basically had an artificial intelligence system that became so smart that it developed its own language for communication without people knowing what the words mean. Fearing that this artificial intelligence system could turn into the Skynet network from the Terminator movies, Facebook engineers stopped its Internet connection to investigate its evolution.
Facebook thought the artificial intelligence system to communicate between servers using the English language, but it started encrypting the messages in totally random phrases. Facebook engineers tried to find out what happened before disconnecting the system from the Internet, but the decision was made that this artificial intelligence would be too advanced to be allowed to use the Internet.
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Facebook would have discovered that the artificial intelligence considered the English language too complicated for communication, so it modified it to make all its communications simple. The problem is that the new way of communication developed by Facebook's artificial intelligence could not be understood by the engineers, so Facebook will have to think of another system that is safer for everyone.
Facebook is only one of the companies that use artificial intelligence at the moment, but it is the first one whose incidents have been confirmed. So far, apart from Facebook, no other company has confirmed that there has been a similar incident, but there have also been no rumors suggesting that another company has had a similar problem, it being an extremely serious one.
Facebook invests a lot of money in the development of these artificial intelligence systems, so any kind of incidents of this kind represent failures that lead to financial losses. It is not known how much money Facebook lost because of this failure, but we are definitely talking about a significant loss that the engineers will have to recover by developing systems that no longer become conscious and create communication methods.
