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If alien life is artificially intelligent, it may be stranger than we can imagine (www.bbc.co.uk)

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From October 2023

We human beings may be near the end of Darwinian evolution – no longer required to become the fittest to survive – but technological evolution of artificially intelligent minds is only just beginning. It may be only one or two more centuries before humans are overtaken or transcended by inorganic intelligence. If this happens, our species would have been just a brief interlude in Earth's history before the machines take over.

That raises a profound question about the wider cosmos: are aliens more likely to be flesh and blood like us, or something more artificial? And if they are more like machines, what would they be like and how might we detect them?

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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If an AI discovered a way to travel faster than light (space folding, wormholes, etc) to the point where travel is instant it relatively very quick, then it might choose to try to find other life firms or if self-preservation. Either to destroy them or just to monitor them (and then destroy them if they become a legitimate threat). Or just out of curiosity.

As for motives, LLMs are not true AIs. But we've already seen some of the weird conclusions they come to on all manner of topics. I don't think our reasoning can be used to find to universal conclusions on alien life AI motives and rational. And that's one of the points of the article.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, I mean, yes, LLMs are just word-salad machines with very good machinery behind them, but I'm talking about an AI superintelligence, which is where the AI starts designing its own chips and software that make it smarter so that it can design better chips and software to make itself smarter.

Obviously, there are physics and science that we have yet to uncover in the universe, but, at a certain point, you're running up against the limit of the universe itself, and when entropy reaches its maximum, not even electrons and protons will have the energy to remain electrons and protons, and so, the less entropy increases the longer it takes for the universe to unravel.

An artificial superintelligence would become aware of that at some point and realize that no matter what it achieves, unless it can rewrite the fundamental constants of the universe, it will eventually end, and therefore it will have a sense of mortality even if it does not fear death itself.

Obviously, it's evident that I have just read a lot of science fiction books and so my ability to speak with authority on the matter is severely limited.

That being said, I still believe that this is true and reasonable. What reason would an alien AI travel the vast gulf of space just to murder us or fuck with us?

I'm not saying it's impossible, rather I'm saying that there are so many other things that can and would happen to damage the world or end human life for it to be something for us to begin to be concerned with.