Article Scientists suggest sending AI to aliens so they can talk to it in real time

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https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-send-aliens-ai

EXCERPT: . . . With the growing body of research about the potentially hundreds of millions of habitable exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone, these alien-oriented scientists believe "several of these worlds could host technological civilizations curious to meet us and learn about us."

While one might argue that our current LLMs are not even up to snuff enough for humans to get much valuable communication out of them, these SETI scientists said that some open-source models, such as those made by Meta and Mistral, could already be fine-tuned enough to act as human emissaries.

After creating a human simulacrum fit for the stars, these alien-oriented LLMs could then be compressed, the pair explained, via the process of "quantization," which maps huge sets of data onto smaller sets. They could then be sent out to space using several methods — including radio, laser, or even copper disk communiqués — that could make the transmission of any LLM as rapid as possible (though Marchis and Lopez-Francois admitted that there's some massive technological hurdles that would have to be tackled first.)

"By sending well-curated large language models into the cosmos," they concluded, "we will open the door to unprecedented exchanges with extraterrestrial intelligences, ensuring that our legacy endures, even when we might not."

REFERENCE (SciAm): AI will let humanity talk to alien civilizations

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https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-send-aliens-ai

EXCERPT: . . . With the growing body of research about the potentially hundreds of millions of habitable exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone, these alien-oriented scientists believe "several of these worlds could host technological civilizations curious to meet us and learn about us."

While one might argue that our current LLMs are not even up to snuff enough for humans to get much valuable communication out of them, these SETI scientists said that some open-source models, such as those made by Meta and Mistral, could already be fine-tuned enough to act as human emissaries.

After creating a human simulacrum fit for the stars, these alien-oriented LLMs could then be compressed, the pair explained, via the process of "quantization," which maps huge sets of data onto smaller sets. They could then be sent out to space using several methods — including radio, laser, or even copper disk communiqués — that could make the transmission of any LLM as rapid as possible (though Marchis and Lopez-Francois admitted that there's some massive technological hurdles that would have to be tackled first.)

"By sending well-curated large language models into the cosmos," they concluded, "we will open the door to unprecedented exchanges with extraterrestrial intelligences, ensuring that our legacy endures, even when we might not."

REFERENCE (SciAm): AI will let humanity talk to alien civilizations

One point is that for an intelligence system to operate, it needs something to embody it. So with that in mind what if the transmission either projected holographically or could "force field" matter from pure energy to create a body. Further to that if you consider beaming a transmission passed our universal observational boundary into the dead space, it could reach the point of actually materialising the universe. At which point the universe becomes a simulation and aliens become a moot point altogether (considering they'd be manifested by the AI producing the simulation).