RE: The future of AI?
March 30, 2016 at 8:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2016 at 8:18 pm by IATIA.)
(March 30, 2016 at 11:52 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: My own take is that although life may be relatively common, technological civilizations are vanishingly rare.
If it were not for the "comet" or whatever 65mya, there might still be dinosaurs here and no human life.
As to Fermi's paradox, There are a lot of stars and the closest one with life could be 100 light years or more away and traveling that distance is tough. We cannot travel to the stars with any technology we might have now or in the foreseeable future. Finding technological life via radio waves is tough. There is a lot of strong static and the weak radio waves that might be around are probably undetectable. (think inverse square law). Now if one were to beam a signal to us, that might very well work if we were looking for it and they knew we were here to point at us.
I am going to let you use my 'magical quantum computer laser'. Point this at any technological life in the universe and it will get there at the speed of light and translate our language to theirs and vice versa. No problem ... ?
1) The nearest one could be 1000 or more light years away. That would be two millennia for a response.
2) So, where are you going to point it? Here is a map for you.
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