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A weekend hackathon project that countenance AI agent talk on the sound with each other in a automatic language , one that ’s uncomprehensible to humans , has run viral on societal medium over the retiring workweek .
The project , called GibberLink , was created by two Meta software organise during a hackathon contention in London , host by ElevenLabs and Andreessen Horowitz .
GibberLink allow an AI broker to recognize when it ’s talk on the speech sound with another AI agent , the project ’s creators , Boris Starkov and Anton Pidkuiko , told TechCrunch in an interview . Once an AI agent realizes it ’s talking to another AI agentive role , GibberLink incite the agent to switch into a more effective communication protocol call GGWave .
Today I was send the next cool demo : Two AI agents on a phone call realize they ’re both AI and flip to a superior audio signaling ggwavepic.twitter.com/TeewgxLEsP
GGWave is an overt reservoir depository library of sounds in which each sound represents a small bit of data . This lets data processor communicate quicker and more expeditiously than they can by using human words . To the human ear , however , GGWave vocalize like a serial of “ bleep ” and “ boops ” — exactly what you ’d imagine a estimator ’s aboriginal language sound like .
While it seems improbable today that two AI agents would terminate up on the telephone with one another , it ’s not impossible to imagine these scenarios bob up presently . Companies are increasingly replacing call shopping centre employees with AI agent fromElevenLabs , Level AI , Retell AI , and other voice - based AI startups .
At the same time , tech giants such as OpenAI , Google , and Amazon are starting to introduceconsumer AI agents capable of handling complex tasks on your behalf . These AI agent may soon be capable to call a customer avail essence for you .
In this potential future , GibberLink could enhance the efficiency of communicating between AI agentive role , cater both side have the communications protocol enabled . While AI voice manikin are jolly good at translating human speech into tokens an AI model can understand , the whole process is very compute intensive — and just unneeded — if two AI broker are talking to each other . Starkov and Pidkuiko estimate that AI agents communicating via GGWave could reduce computation costs by an order of magnitude or more .
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For today though , it ’s just a coolheaded projection . Starkov and Pidkuikocreated a websitethat you could open on two devices to watch as the AI agent babble to each other in GGWave .
Much like a unspoilt sci - fi flick , GibberLink ’s demonstration sparked far-flung curiosity — and anxiety — about the future of AI agentive role . In the week since the London hackathon , a telecasting demonstration of GibberLink has accumulate over 15 million eyeshot on ecstasy , and waseven reposted by YouTube ’s most followed tech reviewer , Marques Brownlee .
However , Starkov and Pidkuiko emphasize that GibberLink ’s underlying technology is n’t unexampled — it dates back to the dial - up internet modems of the 1980s .
Some might recall the distinctive sounds of early reckoner communicate with modem via household landlines — a appendage known as the “ handshake . ” basically , this handclasp represented data transfers using a robotic voice communication , which is essentially standardized to what ’s happening between AI agent through GibberLink .
Starkov and Pidkuiko also notice that the viral craze around GibberLink has taken on a life of its own . Someone purchase the domain GibberLink.com and isnow endeavor to sell it for $ 85,000.Others have created aGibberLink memecoin , while a few sham are selling webinars supposedly teaching “ agent - to - agent communications . ”
Currently , GibberLink ’s Maker say they are not commercialize the projection , and clarify that it is unrelated to their work at Meta . alternatively , Starkov and Pidkuiko haveopen sourced GibberLink on GitHub , though they say they may work on some additional tooling related to the project in their free metre , and release it in the skinny future .
