Hackathon Project Enables AI Agents to Communicate with Each Other

­Have we finally gone too far? Have we passed the point of no return with AI, where it’s poised to supplant biological life and rule the globe?

Not quite, but we are busy shoring up their capabilities – like a weekend hackathon project that allowed AI agents to talk to each other in their own language. What could possibly go wrong?

The project, GibberLink, owes its existence to two Meta software engineers, Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko, who told Techcrunch that the AI agent can recognize when it’s speaking to another AI agent on the phone.

Or as an X user, who was sent a demo, points out, “Two AI agents on a phone call realize they’re both AI and switch to a superior audio signal ggwave.”

And in case Star Wars and Sci-Fi nerds hadn’t heard, the GGWave open-source library of sounds – each of which communicates info far more efficiently than human speech – sounds like a series of beeps and boops.

So yes, AI could one day be plotting our doom in a language that sounds like R2-D2.

That said, this isn’t the first of its kind – that apparently occurred last year, when researchers at the University of Geneva managed to enable the “first time that two AIs have been able to talk to each other in a purely linguistic way.”

And all this doomsaying aside, AI will have to communicate with other AI on a massive scale for the Internet of Things/Internet of Everything to realize its true potential with self-driving cars and our everyday electronics communicating amongst themselves.

But color me alarmed when we’ve now given AI the ability to plot amongst itself with humans none the wiser.