Miss Tools and Mr Fruit: Emergent Communication in Agents Learning about Object Affordances (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent research studies communication emergence in communities of deep network agents assigned a joint task . authors propose a game meeting many desiderata for a natural communication environment . |
| Approach: | They propose a task capturing aspects of the human environment and human conversation . they propose 'game' meeting many desiderata for a natural communication environment . |
| Outcome: | The proposed task captures aspects of human environment and human conversation, but the agents develop multiple idiolects, resulting in a common language. |
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