# Rat big, cat eaten! Ideas for a useful deep-agent protolanguage

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.11922 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.11922/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 17 Mar 2020.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Deep-agent communities developing their own language-like communication protocol are a hot (or at least warm) topic in AI. Such agents could be very useful in machine-machine and human-machine interaction scenarios long before they have evolved a protocol as complex as human language. Here, I propose a small set of priorities we should focus on, if we want to get as fast as possible to a stage where deep agents speak a useful protolanguage.