Training agents to invent a language
Luc Steels was doing this years ago (since mid-1990s IIRC):<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=luc+steels+inventing+language&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=ssl#spf=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=luc+steels+inve...</a><p>Ah, yes, I see that a paper referenced on the website:<p>"A Paradigm for Situated and Goal-Driven Language Learning
Jon Gauthier, Igor Mordatch"<p>grants a footnote to one of Steels' 2012 publications, stating:<p>"A related line of work in evolutionary linguistics constructs a similar language learning scenario entirely without fixed-language agents (Smith et al., 2003; Steels, 2012; Kirby et al., 2014). All of the agents in these environments construct a novel language simultaneously to accomplish some shared task. This is an interesting separate line of research, but ultimately a separate task from the understanding and acquisition problems discussed in this abstract."