What is Alice and Bob?

Cartoon by John Richardson in Physics World, March 1998. When the interaction between two hypothetical characters is needed to explain or describe a trope, they are nearly always called Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob — A and B. This duo originally started out as a standardized way to explain cryptography.

Did Facebook shut down Alice & Bob?

Facebook did have two AI-powered chatbots named Alice and Bob that learned to communicate with each other in a more efficient way. But this didn't happen recently. And Facebook didn't shut down Alice and Bob . USA TODAY reached out to Scary Stories & Urban Legends for comment.

Did a chatbot make a deal with Alice & Bob?

The result: Alice and Bob. Using a game where the two chatbots, as well as human players, bartered virtual items such as books, hats and balls, Alice and Bob demonstrated they could make deals with varying degrees of success, the New Scientist reported . The post's claim that the bots spoke to each other in a made-up language checks out.

What is the role of Alice and Bob in cryptology?

Over the next decade of academic research in cryptology, Alice and Bob would become ubiquitous and a key epistemic tool.