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AI models work together faster when they speak their own language

Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth to English, could accelerate their task-solving abilities

By Matthew Sparkes

15 November 2024

Do you speak AI?

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Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other faster and more efficiently than in English, with the hope that groups of models will be able to team up without having to resort to clumsy and sprawling human words.

Many researchers believe that using several artificial intelligence models, each with different specialisms and abilities, to solve problems collectively holds promise for tackling thorny problems that individual ones can’t solve. Although large language models like ChatGPT have been shown to be capable of communicating at high speed, even reaching consensus…

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