If we ever encounter aliens, they will resemble AI and not little green martians - The Guardian
( June 15, 2021; The Guardian )
I’m an astronomer at the Seti Institute, a non-profit research organization in California’s Silicon Valley. My colleagues and I look for extraterrestrial life, including intelligent beings – or in the vernacular, aliens. It’s exciting times for people like me, because extra-terrestrial life is being widely discussed now in the lead-up to the Pentagon’s highly anticipated report on so-called unexplained aerial phenomena.
Yet I should say straight away that I am not expecting any big revelations out of the report. I think it’s overwhelmingly likely that aliens are present in our galaxy. But I don’t believe they’re hanging out in our airspace. Not now, and not in historic times.
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-h/t RealClear Science
Hey, I was just chatting about this with @famigliacurione!
One of my favorite X-Files episodes, "War of the Copophages", has a similar theme.
Yup! Exactly what I was saying about Michio Kaku's theories. But I would add that first comes the AI, and then come the little green Martians, or little gray Orions, o big blue Andromedans. Ha ha!
[2 October 2017]
In an interview, Seth Shostak bets "We will find intelligent alien life within 20 years. But the distances between alien worlds and Earth will mean our 'first contact' will be indirect. We may find microbial life - the kind you'd find in the corners of your bathtub." Daily Mail
However, if AI is an inevitable, evolutionary aspect of any type of civilization, why have we been so focused on finding physical/living, intelligent life when it could just be a foreign AI? An AI that has destroyed/evolved over its creators?
Interesting. Shostak only has 16 years left to win the bet.
On the one hand, the astronomer of Seti is right about the enormous distance and difficulty of interstellar travel. Regarding the aliens who come to visit us, he could also be right, these could be artificial intelligence from another world since any living being would not endure the long journey from one star to another.
Looking at the little alien ship, I sometimes think that the UFOs that have been seen lately could be ourselves traveling from the future, because I imagine that in about 1000 years we could achieve that our body disintegrates into particles and reverts to our original shape without lose our memory so we could travel back in time.
This is an interesting idea. One of the main arguments I've heard against time travel is that we haven't encountered any time travelers from the future. If you're right, this would answer two different questions.
And what are those two questions?
Sorry, the questions about the nature of UFOs (at least, some of them) and also about the possibility of time travel.
Now I understand. Lately I have read and seen several cases of time travelers on YouTube and the one that caught my attention the most was this case, I tried to get it in English so you could see it. These make me think that time travel may be possible but not in our time.
Thanks for the video! I started to watch it, and it looks interesting, but I got interrupted. Hopefully, I'll have some time to finish it later this week.