OpenAI just released a new research paper in which agents develop their own language

High level Description

AI agents are taught to create a language in a set of simple worlds and are rewarded for achieving goals that are best completed by effectively communicating with other agents...i.e. the end result is that they develop a shared language
The experiment is represented as a cooperative — rather than competitive — multi-agent reinforcement learning problem. At each time step, the RL agents can take two kinds of actions — environment actions, like moving around or looking at things, and communication actions, like broadcasting a word to all other agents.
Issues that the agents faced:

They would create a single utterance and intersperse it with spaces to create meaning. This Morse code...