Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:21:14 +0000
<p>In 2017, Facebook published a paper called <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05125">Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues</a>. In this research, the reinforcement learning agents developed a mechanism of communication (which could be called a language) that made them able to optimize their scores in the negotiation game. Many media sources reported this as if it were a first step towards Skynet taking over. In this episode, Kyle discusses bargaining agents and the actual results of this research.</p>
