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Artificial intelligence can beat humans at games such as Jeopardy, chess and Go, but these much-celebrated achievements arenβt actually what we need. We want AI to work with us not against us β and the key may be a little banter.
at Brigham Young University in Utah and his colleagues created an algorithm capable of learning to cooperate with people that uses short snippets of conversation known as βcheap talkβ.
By including chit-chat, the team doubled the rate of cooperation between humans and AI across 472 games. These games were two-player…
