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'Droidspeak': AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to Microsoft

It seems likely this is just the first step towards a future in which the diversity of machine languages rivals that of human ones.

They’ve named the new approach Droidspeak—a reference to the beep and whistle-based language used by robots in Star Wars —and in a preprint paper published on the arXiv, the Microsoft team reports it enabled models to communicate 2.78 times faster with little accuracy lost. Typically, when AI agents communicate using natural language, they not only share the output of the current step they’re working on, but also the entire conversation history leading up to that point. Philip Feldman at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County told New Scientist that the resulting communication speed-ups could help multi-agent systems tackle bigger, more complex problems than possible using natural language.

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