{"id":282136,"date":"2021-06-23T22:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/did-ai-come-from-et\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:54:52","slug":"did-ai-come-from-et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-ai-come-from-et\/","title":{"rendered":"#Did AI come from ET?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a299d2c81607\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a299d2c81607\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-ai-come-from-et\/#Happy_UFO_Day\" >Happy UFO Day<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-ai-come-from-et\/#A_pyramid_scheme\" >A pyramid scheme<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-ai-come-from-et\/#The_final_form\" >The final form<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/did-ai-come-from-et\/#There_are_no_guarantees_in_science\" >There are no guarantees in science<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Did AI come from ET?<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F06%2Falienpepper.jpg&amp;signature=eb65c80cdaf5876a59925b07b77f5ff9\" \/><\/p>\n<div><span>What if artificial intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> and extraterrestrials are inextricably linked?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some experts believe aliens are waiting for us to develop more advanced AI <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lanceeliot\/2020\/02\/29\/former-astronaut-suggests-alien-beings-are-here-on-earth-if-so-maybe-they-are-waiting-for-ai-self-driving-cars-to-emerge\/?sh=328adeda3bf9\">before they reveal themselves<\/a>. Others think <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/u.osu.edu\/vanzandt\/2019\/02\/26\/the-ai-we-encounter-everyday-is-really-just-aliens\/\">aliens gave us our current AI technology<\/a>. And still others theorize that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20160922-what-if-the-aliens-we-are-looking-for-are-ai\">space aliens <\/a><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20160922-what-if-the-aliens-we-are-looking-for-are-ai\"><i>are<\/i><\/a><span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20160922-what-if-the-aliens-we-are-looking-for-are-ai\"> AIs<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Let\u2019s see how these ideas hold up to some very light scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Happy_UFO_Day\"><\/span><span>Happy UFO Day<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>The US government will be issuing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-57559179\">an official report<\/a> on 25 June covering declassified data on 120 UFO sightings from the past two decades. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The report was ordered by Congress after a bipartisan session determined the government should come clean concerning a shadow investigation on UFOs that\u2019d been in operation since at least 2007. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Much of Congress\u2019 concern relates to US Navy videos taken by pilots stationed aboard the USS\u00a0Nimitz in 2004 and later which were leaked to the public. These short video clips <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to show unidentified aerial phenomena \u2013 the government\u2019s official term for UFOs \u2013 in the form of small, dexterous aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pentagon declassifies Navy &#039;UFO&#039; videos (VIDEO 1\/3)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWLZgnmRDs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>TNW\u2019s own Alexander Griffioen, a recognized UFO expert, recently gave an interview with my boss, Anouk Vluegels, to discuss the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>[Read: This UFO expert is excited about the Pentagon\u2019s new report \u2014 but don\u2019t expect aliens]<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>During the interview, Alexander spoke about some of the things researchers have identified going on in the videos that might point towards UFO activity:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>For example, there\u2019s instantaneous acceleration: moving from zero to Mach six or seven in seconds. If a human being was inside that craft, they would turn into mush because of the G-forces. Another one is \u2018transmedium <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>\u2019: the ability to move in or out of the water without losing speed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>If these are indeed extraterrestrial objects operating under the control of an alien force, it stands to reason they wouldn\u2019t be biological. As Alexander points out, sustained flight in near physics-breaking paradigms would likely be fatal to anything built like us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Also, we do have <em>some<\/em> experience with making contact with other planets. We\u2019ve landed machines on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Since that\u2019s the only data we have, it\u2019s at least a little useful to imagine an alien species might go the same route and send AI first too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Basically, it makes sense that aliens would send drones instead of pilots. I\u2019d call this theory at least somewhat feasible, as long as you\u2019re willing to assume there\u2019s intelligent life out there. That\u2019s a big assumption, but we\u2019re still within the realm of scientific theory here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, once you start adding in extra assumptions involving giant coverups, as some scientists have, it becomes a conspiracy theory. We can\u2019t get around a scientific mystery by obscuring it in further mystery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_pyramid_scheme\"><\/span><span>A pyramid scheme<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>People have imagined hyper-advanced civilizations visiting Earth to share technology since we first gazed up at the night sky. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are still those who believe the pyramids of Egypt were built with the aid of aliens. The modern day version of this belief is that aliens gave us our current artificial intelligence technology in order to set us on the path to becoming an interplanetary species. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I like this theory because it means Elon Musk is probably an alien. It\u2019s also fun because, if you believe it, it\u2019s impossible for anyone to convince you you\u2019re wrong. It requires you to always assume <\/span><i>the government<\/i><span> knows something any expert or <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>-minded person doesn\u2019t. You\u2019re either in on it, a patsy, or one of the few elite people smart enough to \u201cfigure it out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. There\u2019s no mystery behind Earth\u2019s AI technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the incredible advances and increased usefulness we\u2019ve seen from deep learning technologies in the past decade, AI isn\u2019t all that much more complicated today than it was in the 1920s when it first rose to prominence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>People who don\u2019t have an intimate understanding of exactly how so-called \u201cadvanced\u201d technologies work often think technology springs forth from a void like a magical spell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the truth is that science and technology are seldom defined by eureka moments that come in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>-changing leaps. But, instead, by a slow, never-ending slog for truth that allows our collective knowledge to endure from one generation to the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If aliens gave us AI, the question is when? There are no inexplicable leaps in the history of\u00a0artificial intelligence technology. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today\u2019s modern algorithms and the computers they run on can be reverse-engineered with mathematical precision all the way back to the ideas of philosophers such as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/pythagoras\/\">Pythagoras<\/a> and inventions such as the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-84310-w\">Antikythera mechanism<\/a> \u2013 both of which existed more than 2,000 years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s tripe to think we\u2019d need aliens to give us something we\u2019ve obviously been working on for thousands of years. The same goes with the pyramids. They didn\u2019t spring up in the abstract, they were built piece by piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a popular myth that we can\u2019t explain how they were built. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5bnpm\/why-do-so-many-people-still-think-aliens-built-the-pyramids\">We can<\/a>. We\u2019re just not sure exactly which of many possible methods were actually deployed, which makes it more of a records-keeping problem on behalf of the ancient Egyptians than a mysterious puzzle.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_final_form\"><\/span><span>The final form<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>And that just brings us to my favorite of all the trending AI and aliens tropes: the idea that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jun\/14\/aliens-resemble-ai-not-green-martians\">aliens are AIs<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>What if those UFOs the US Navy saw weren\u2019t drones, but were actual sentient machines from another planet? Or what if aliens could visit Earth as ghosts in the machine without anyone knowing. Maybe that\u2019s where computer glitches come from and why resetting our devices always seems to work like magic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This would mean that the aliens we\u2019re scanning the cosmos for are already here. They could even be hiding in plain sight \u2013 <\/span><i>like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/transformers.hasbro.com\/es-es\/brands\/robots-in-disguise\">robots in disguise<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>But here\u2019s the rub: We already struggle to demonstrate any evidence for organic life. Taking that a step further and assuming that not only is there organic life elsewhere in the universe, but that it either created or evolved into sentient machine life as well, is doubling down on the things we don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s not evidence. It\u2019s a science fiction double feature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We do not know that our own artificial intelligence technology will ever lead to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> AI, sentient machines, living robots, thinking computers, or any other life-adjacent technological paradigm. We can only guess this will happen and continue working towards it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Today\u2019s experts predict these advances could be \u201cright around the corner,\u201d but they also predicted AI would win World War II when the Russian, British, US, and German military forces scrambled to develop and deploy it in the early 1940s. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We might be on the verge of proving AI is capable of true intelligence. And we might not. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, we\u2019re no closer to time travel today than when the Manhattan Project ended in 1946. But quantum computing, once thought a parallel technology to time travel, is moving along nicely with functional (albeit not quite useful yet) examples from both Google and IBM in operation today.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"There_are_no_guarantees_in_science\"><\/span><span>There are no guarantees in science<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>If the truth is out there, we\u2019re more likely to find it by focusing our efforts on advancing the tools we have and applying them to the search for ET. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conjuring fantasies where aliens come to Barack Obama or Ian Goodfellow in a dream, and gift one of them the master algorithm, doesn\u2019t push the field forward. Even though it is a lot of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The problem is that the hunt for extraterrestrial life is actually quite serious. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We need UFO enthusiasts and people who believe. They\u2019re important to our society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> But there are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/118\/15\/e1912444117\">dangers to confusing the mainstream public<\/a> and we\u2019re at a point in time when a significant percent of the global population does not understand AI. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When the mainstream public stops understanding the lines between legitimate research and conspiracy theory, it can make it hard for real scientists to do real science. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And we need AI researchers and other scientists focused on building better algorithms so astrophysicists can develop stronger simulations, engineers can make useful quantum computers, and, with any luck, someone will finally figure out warp drives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of these things are firmly based in reality, should help us find any ETs out there, and, arguably, they\u2019ll be necessary for our future <\/span><i>whether aliens exist or not<\/i><span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Some experts believe aliens are waiting for us to develop more advanced AI before they reveal themselves. Others think aliens gave us our current AI technology. And still others theorize that space aliens are AIs. 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