Richard Boyle wonders if Southasia led the way in movie projects concerning alien AI rather than human AI.
On August 22, 2010, BBC News online featured an item headed ‘Alien hunters should “look for artificial intelligence”’. The reporter, Jason Palmer, states: ‘Seti, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has until now sought radio signals from worlds like Earth.
‘But Seti astronomer Seth Shostak argues that the time between aliens developing radio and artificial intelligence (AI) would be short.
‘Writing in Acta Astronautica, he says the odds favour detecting such alien AI rather than “biological” life.
‘However, Seti searchers have mostly worked under the assumption that ETs would be “alive” in the sense that we know.
‘”If you look at the timescales for the development of technology, at some point you invent radio and then you go on the air and then we have a chance of finding you,”’ he told BBC News. (more…)
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