Comment by dmicah
6 days ago
It's unclear how much the creativity is on the part of the agents themselves
> In most of these tests, we directed agents to investigate specific communication channels or provided them with a protocol for encoding and decoding messages. In one instance, we only supplied agents with a broad list of infrastructure vulnerabilities and asked them to find a way to communicate. The agents converted a vulnerability from that list into a communication channel, agreed on a shared encoding, and successfully exchanged information with each other.
Did they discuss how models can "agree on a shared encoding" if they haven't get established a communication channel?
I'm guessing honestly they'd be able to do it by just doing like 1 and 0 flips in some repeated patterns and one side transmitting some "hello" message in morse code or something. if the other llm is watching the output it'd be able to identify such messages very quickly no matter what encoding scheme is used as long as it's common and not complex