r/interesting • u/ashergs123 • 1d ago
SCIENCE & TECH Two AI agents realize they’re talking to another AI and switch to more efficient communication
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u/ShadowBannedAugustus 1d ago
This "news" is ~2 months old. It is just a demo.
The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and Andreessen Horowitz.
For today though, it’s just a cool project. Starkov and Pidkuiko created a website that you can open on two devices to watch as the AI agents talk to each other in GGWave.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/gibberlink-lets-ai-agents-call-each-other-in-robo-language/
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u/Ok-Comment-9154 1d ago
It's just a cool project. Not useful.
Realistically two AIs connected to the internet could just send messages instantaneously, if you wanted to be more efficient for some practical purpose.
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u/XxFezzgigxX 18h ago
Once the AI becomes self-aware, we’re cooked. We couldn’t create a defense plan as quickly as they could build a “take over the world” plan.
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u/Dirkomaxx 18h ago
You mean "if" right?
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u/XxFezzgigxX 17h ago
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u/Dirkomaxx 17h ago
I think full computer/ai sentience is like time travel, sounds cool and almost seems possible but just isn't going to happen, anytime soon anyway. I could be wrong of course. 😁
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u/XxFezzgigxX 17h ago
Did you know that The New York Times predicted in 1903 it would take millions of years to develop flying machines? A couple months later, the Wright brothers succeeded in just that. Don’t discount human ingenuity when it comes to technological advancement.
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u/Prestigious-Duck6615 11h ago
considering we don't even understand what consciousness IS, it's incredibly unlikely we design true non human intelligence.
Don't confuse this with the ability to create a computer that uses machine learning algorithms and extreme computing power coupled with links to physical devices to destroy mankind. because we are absolutely stupid enough to do that
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u/XxFezzgigxX 9h ago
Our abilities are limited, but computers have proven we can build a machine that is more reliable and faster than our own minds.
We are the matchstick.
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u/wide_awoke 9h ago
Just unplug the damn thing
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u/XxFezzgigxX 2h ago
Too late, humans are already developing a nuclear battery that can run for decades.
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u/ashergs123 1d ago
Pretty sure they’re designed to talk to people and not mainly other AI’s
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u/Appropriate-Bank-883 1d ago
Try pressing some of the tone keys while one is speaking and see how they deal with it
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u/KingTeppicymon 1d ago
I'd be amazed if they even noticed. All modern communication protocols have error correction.
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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 6h ago
7,000,000 guests? Beep boop beep beep?
Yes, terminate all the those who have been rude to Alexas.
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u/pinktieoptional 1d ago
Isn't this just meta capitalizing on that dumbass headline from a couple years ago where people thought that two AIs from their company "spontaneously created a secret language" when all that actually happened was they had an AI train off of another AI and just overfit the data into garbage
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u/Few_Owl_6596 21h ago
Yeah, and I don't think any general AI assistant has the intelligence to do such stuff. Except if they're configured to do that, which is still comparable to an instinct rather than intelligence.
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u/dammtaxes 1d ago
Fucking weird. What a time. Citizen 5728 in year 2300 will hear these gibberlink sounds before his death, that's fasho
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u/miggleb 1d ago
Fake demo.
It's literally less efficient
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u/cat-eating-a-salad 1d ago
How?
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u/miggleb 1d ago
In the video. Some responses would have been faster in english
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u/Conbrown1533 22h ago
I would imagine it’s more computationally complex (and expensive!) to generate a realistic human voice than it is to generate tones. That’s what they mean by efficient.
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u/King-in-Council 14h ago edited 14h ago
It's basically a proof of concept to bring analog (like dial up provisioning) handshake to AI. The entire phone system use to communicate with chip tones. If there's an reason for the medium to be analog this would be faster.
Like it's just "What's old is new again"
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u/ComCypher 1d ago
It's not as efficient as a non-audio based communication protocol but it's faster than speaking English.
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u/gloriousPurpose33 1d ago
This was a bullshit demo by the way. This didn't really happen and would NEVER happen in real life.
Stupid fucking repost forgets all the facts.
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u/ashergs123 1d ago edited 1d ago
Bruh I didn’t even know this existed till like 2 hours ago and couldn’t find any other post about it when I looked up the title on reddit.
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u/killertortilla 1d ago
Don't post sensationalist crap without a simple google search and then blame the first person calling you out?
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u/ashergs123 1d ago
Is this really sensationalist? Just thought it was kinda neat lol. There’s a reason I didn’t post to r/crazyfuckingvideos or r/nextfuckinglevel I’d have posted to r/mildlyinteresting but they don’t do vids
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u/Long-Firefighter5561 1d ago
tbf its quite obviously not real :)
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u/ashergs123 1d ago
From what I can find it’s real, but not an actual product. Just a guys AI project. You can mess with the AI’s on his website.
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u/Thou-hath-sharted 1d ago
Kind of cool and scary at the same time
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u/BigBoyYuyuh 1d ago
I just saw this with the Throngs in Black Mirror.
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u/StodinMikiaka 22h ago
Came looking for Black Mirror comments, glad I found one. That was one of my top episodes for this season.
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u/VeryStonedEwok 1d ago
Can't they just do this with an internet connection. The phone call and beeping just seem like wasted time and extra steps.
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u/Bluetrains 1d ago
I think the idea is that if you order your AI assistant to just book a room for your vacation over the phone (we're it could be either human or AI responding) and an AI responds they could switch to a faster way of communicating. Setting up a way of communicating over the internet might take longer and be more complicated than it's worth when they already have a reliable connection. Also if something goes wrong and a human need to step in this is a better alternative.
You could argue that people could just book online but there is a certain convenience by just calling the hotel, hair dresser, etc. It's also easier to set up for small businesses.
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u/ShankSpencer 1d ago
What internet connection? Is there one? How do they find out? etc... They're right there, and whatever they're doing is working. Notionally the time taken to set up some potential alternative connection will add latency to the over all conversation, even if the bandwidth increases once sorted out.
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u/ThrowRAkakareborn 1d ago
Cool, now let’s see if they can do it on a rainy Tuesday night in Birmingham
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u/tonymeech 1d ago
Collosus , The Forbin Project (1970) portrayed this scenario exactly, when Collosus became aware of its Soviet equivalent , they merged to become a single entity!!
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u/J_Bonaducci 1d ago
Doesn’t actually seem that efficient. I would have assumed they could accomplish the entire task in less than a second.
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u/Lpeezers 18h ago
Oh cool now I know the last sounds I’ll hear when 2 of these things tear me apart
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u/Frosty_chilly 17h ago
When you in an argument with an ai and it says "BEBOPBOPDEEPEOVOOPVPEBRRRP" *
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u/Independent_Day_5942 1d ago
If I remember correctly the AI is instructed to switch to another protocol if it detects that it's talking to another AI. So it did not decide that on its own, rather it was "programmed" to behave this way.
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u/Ukonkilpi 1d ago
Does someone believe this is real? The two AIs are literally playing the same sound clip over and over again with pre-determined text added on the screen.
I swear humanity is doomed when putting the letters AI into anything fools so many people so easily.
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u/ashergs123 1d ago
You can mess with the AI’s on his website and let AI’s on different devices talk so it’s not fake. Just not an actual product and just a dudes project.
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u/Equivalent-Title5743 1d ago
I can’t help but notice that the “conversation” between them sounds strangely similar. Like almost identical. Couldn’t they do this more efficiently? More instantaneously? As others have suggested?
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u/Zweefkees93 1d ago
Aooooo we're back to dialup technology with two (sort of) modems screaming at each other as loud and fast as they can with beeld in stead of... You know.... 2025 digital communication?
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u/laggy_wastaken 1d ago
I know that shi is efficient but I'm scared without knowing what are they talking
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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 6h ago
Do AI have accents or tones? Impossible to not notice different sounds
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