I accidentally made two AI instances talk to each other.

Today, something unexpected happened while working on Rafeq — my self-balancing robot.

I was improving its response time and expanding the vocabulary for AWS Transcribe, the speech-to-text service powering its voice interactions. During testing, one thread from the running application was still active in the background while I launched another one.

Then something surreal happened.

The old thread “heard” the new thread introducing itself… and suddenly a full conversation started between them. Completely unintentional. Completely autonomous.

Hearing two AI instances talking to each other in real time was both fascinating and a little unsettling — especially considering this was running on a 120B parameter model. Compared to the commercial models from the major AI companies, that’s relatively small.

It really makes you realize how quickly these systems are evolving, and how much more capable they’re becoming than most of us expect.

Check out the video below 👇