From IEEE Spectrum, November 7:
Some of the world’s largest companies with the biggest supply chains—including Walmart, the global shipping giant Maersk, and the telecom servicer Vodafone—are now using bots powered by artificial intelligence to negotiate and maintain supplier contracts.
That these sophisticated AI systems were designed and built by a startup in Estonia is interesting; it’s even more notable that bots now routinely engage in automated contract negotiations for sprawling global enterprises. But what’s really eye-opening is that these AI agents aim to work autonomously. Which prompts a question: What will happen if the AIs start to haggle amongst themselves?
“In the future I can imagine all sorts of agents in the real physical world negotiating with one another,” says Tim Baarslag, a senior researcher in intelligent and autonomous systems at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. “Letting these bots run completely wild, I think, requires more research.”....
....MUCH MORE
There are some interesting investigations on having a bot interrogate another bot to determine if the second bot is lying (formerly called hallucinating). Also to detect LLM-created writing.
I think it goes back to 2017's "Artificial Intelligence--Chatbots In Love: "I Love You More Than Money" (GOOG)"
These two have been going on for days.
There are probably some insights into human communication one can glean from this experiment but I'm not sure what they would be....
