What if ET is an AI?

[ericlp]

Maybe we need to invent AI to find ET AKA AI? Maybe by inventing AI, we will learn how AI communicates to find our next evolution.



https://aeon.co/essays/first-contact-what-if-we-find-not-organic-life-but-ets-ai

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for a very interesting read. And somewhat scary ... but not too much, though.

 

[Orange Kid]

Sounds rather Rod Serlingesk, but anything is possible.
I have always felt that computers, once taught a task (run a program), they seem to run it better as time goes on. They seen to get into a rhythm.
I may be slightly teched too.
Interesting none the less.

 

[StefanR5R]

Fermi’s Paradox – if life isn’t impossibly rare, then where is everyone? Efforts to scan the skies for signs of intelligent life have come up blank too, adding to the puzzle. Perhaps the vast gulfs of interstellar space and the narrow windows of time for communicative species to exist within shouting distance of each other are to blame.

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." — D. Adams

 

[emptykoolaidcup]

Greetings, I have moved from Team Linux over to TeAm AnandTech... Time to get crunching! Lookout for sentient AI aliens!

 

[lane42]

Welcome to the Team Tom_Servo

 

[Orange Kid]

Welcome to the Team Tom_Servo

 

[biodoc]

Welcome Tom_Servo!

 

[crashtech]

Greetings, I have moved from Team Linux over to TeAm AnandTech... Time to get crunching! Lookout for sentient AI aliens!

Well, hello, Tom_Servo, and welcome! May your stay be long, productive, and above all, enjoyable!

 

[Kiska]

Greetings, I have moved from Team Linux over to TeAm AnandTech... Time to get crunching! Lookout for sentient AI aliens!

Howdy!