Could Intelligent Alien Life be AI?

Artificial Intelligence or AI more specifically strong AI or artificial superintelligence could possibly be the answer or the solution to the Fermi paradox. The Fermi paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability of existence.The conundrum for the existence of aliens and more categorically intelligent aliens could be a much simpler solution that we've previously thought. To more broadly answer the question of intelligent aliens, we first have to think about whether it's possible that we are a just a tiny spec in the vastness of space, the only place in the universe where intelligent life found its way to manifest Or maybe there is an abundance of intelligent life out there and we just haven't found it yet.The search for extraterrestrial life is arguably one of the most all-encompassing scientific quest endeavours of our time.How would we know if we had found alien life? It would be interesting to find something that looks like intelligent alien life, but is not actually alive. It could be a space probe. Or a satellite. We often imagine extraterrestrial life as having a face, because we can't figure out what it would look like. But if we were to find intelligent alien life, we might not immediately know what it is. Our guesses till recently were random mixtures of biological forms. An advanced civilization however could also be able to engineer machines or digital living forms with the exact same properties as biological forms.A growing number of scientists believe that the aliens we are looking for are in fact AI. It is quite possible that some civilizations could have transcended biology all together to become artificial superintelligence.

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[drthknight]

While another intelligent civilization may have invented a cleverer way to communicate with other intelligent beings, they would be smart enough to realize that some civilizations are probably not as advanced as they are. In that case they would most likely still send out radio signals like we are doing now just to make sure those who are not as advanced may receive their message.

[amritprajapati]

“ *If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans* ” —Stephen Hawking

[thelastdragon]

I too am jealous I won’t be around to witness these discoveries.

[blackmaledesigner]

I am sooo glad that this is final being hypothesized. Well on YT

[johntexas]

Good content. I've been thinking the same for a spell now.

[yummymellow]

I have a question, suppose there is a life in the form of Bacteria or virus on other planets/moons, can we call those bacteria or virus An Alien

[Bassibasukki]

pentagon released those tic tac shaped ufo's flying over seas. could it be infact some sort of superintelligence we are not aware of?

[Casey.]

Commentator: “wow signal”
My brain: *in Owen Wilson’s voice* “wow”

[TheAndjelika]

Maybe intelligence we know is only related to us since it came out from the limitations of our senses, and our neural limitations as well. I really hope that AI is that next life form that will continue the evolutionary chain and that, maybe, will be even able to that intelligence jump, from our "primitive" way of thinking to something else.

[flyingfree]

6:39 You're envious Neil, not jealous.

[nwabuezeozuzu]

Who knows the song used at this point 0:34?

[jeremypmerrill]

running the right software a Raspberry Pi could dwarf us intellectually. Maybe the solution to the Fermi paradox is that intelligent artificial life inevitably miniaturizes itself into the microscopic realm.

[greenlantern]

If you look at the universe .. you have to say anything is possible . It’s kind of amazing and creepy at the same time

[michaellonergan]

a little update that i learned, the “wow” signal actually turned out to be a comet

[lowket]

Communication via quantum tunneling or via subspace will change the search for extraterrestrial life in a dramatic way.

[kiwiguy]

Yes, but an advanced civilization would probably use all mediums to communicate knowing that other life out there might not have their latest tech levels. Ie: they'd transmit over radio waves as well as their high tech means

[jdsguam]

Finally I hear what I've been thinking all along. It's silly to think alien beings would think like we think. We have no idea what other life forms on earth think about, certainly we can not grasp the intelligence of alien beings capable of visiting earth. The AI theory is the best so far I think.

[epictales]

Couldn't we use lasers as a form of communications? It would work similarly to how fiber optics work now, but without a outer sheathing such as plastics like we use in fiber optics. Instead of bouncing from one edge to the other the light waves are spun in a spiral shape to constrain the signals over long distances. We could also use either light being on or off, or we could simply change intensity of the light to represent digital communications with the ability to carry large packet sizes due to being able to use more than just 1s and 0s. With a system like that we could have virtually limitless variable digital number representations for number from 0 to infinity, in theory at least. We would have to create much larger lasers in width which also increases the amount of information one transmission can send as well as the distance the transmissions can travel. Since debris and other bodies in space would case interferences we could send the signal out as a repetitive across the various transmission bands to limit the interference when the signal/s arrive at the destination/s. Furthermore, we could also send out relay stations to increase range along the way. AI would be perfect to set into space to complete these tasks upon arrival at a set destination. You imagination is your one and only limitation when it comes to this type of thing, I only wish I was able to be a part of a group with the goal of pursuit in these tasks!!

[EdgarKohl]

Could tic-tac intelligent life Hack a chatter box ?.. I'd hope so.

[bilbobaggings]

Imagine if we and the universe are cells inside another lifeform 😮