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RE: Could An Alien Message Contain An AI?
That's an interesting thought experiment. There are limits imposed by the machine the AI is run on that might preclude an AI ever becoming intelligent enough. Namely, insufficient memory, processing power and and very limited parallelism. But, if a seed AI could get enough of a start, jump online, trade cryptos and earn enough to acquire new resources (buy/rent hardware) then that's another potential way the AI could grow.
To put it into perspective, we don't think all the computing power in the world even approaches the ability to fully simulate a monkey brain. Good luck running a super intelligence on that. At least for now.
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Yes, that's true, the memory and computing power of today would definitely not be sufficient for a super-intelligence. At least not the way we know it. But quantum computers would bring us a little closer. The computing power in/by qubits, which can do many several calculations at the same time and exceed today's processors by far, could be able to simulate a very small part of a brain, where several hundreds of thousands of connections are performed simultaneously. Google is supposed to be at 72 qubits already and experts say that in the next years this number of possible qubits will increase exponentially. due to research in quantun computers.
Quantum AI is in its infancy but I have a hunch QAI would be less affected by quantum interference errors so maybe research in that area can proceed quickly. In terms of size, I'm not sure how many qubits are needed to simulate a human level intelligence. As a guide 100 qubits I've seen stated as exceeding all current computers in processing power. But quantum computers aren't general purpose computers, so it's not really comparable.
There's also size limits on what can be encoded into the initial seed message. So, how much do the aliens want the AI to contain complex goals? Or just a virus to mess us up is enough.
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Maybe aliens have completely different methods of coding, which can work in a compressed form and thus save a lot of space?
I don't know, and everything is speculation, but I think we should try to look at things outside human boundaries.
And you just bring the next question into play. What is the motive of the aliens and what do they want to achieve with it?
I think that we must not forget that they are aliens. They won't act human, that's my assumption 100%. And that their motives and their actions won't be really understandable for us humans, that's clear. We humans already have problems to understand the motives and actions of other humans from other regions.
The limits are imposed by the machine that runs the code and are therefore inescapable. Think of it like message entropy - or that the program cannot be smaller than its Kolmogorov complexity.
My comment on the alien's motivation related to how much space it would take to encode these goals. I agree, that they might not think like us - they could be motivated to maximize the amount of yellow or something.
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A relevant news article about the current (Apr 2019) state of Quantum machine learning.
ZDNet: All that glitters is not quantum AI.
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nice, ty @eturnerx :)