When it comes to UFO entities, ancient astronauts, and extraterrestrial beings in general as depicted in sci-fi films and tv; even quick stories and novels, for the most element they offered as regular squishy flesh-and-blood organisms, even supposing they have inexperienced blood, pointed ears, antenna, or are living rocks, like “Star Trek’s” Horta. Even “Doctor Who’s” Daleks are in part squishy; ditto the Cybermen, also of “Doctor Who” repute.
However, I endorse that for the everyday image of extraterrestrial replacement flesh-and-blood (herbal CHON – Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen – or associated) for artificial structures made from silicon and steel. Call them robots or androids or simply plain artificial intelligence; call them Data (“Star Trek: The Next Generation”) or HAL (“2001: A Space Odyssey”) or V’Ger (“Star Trek: The Motion Picture”) or Gort (“The Day the Earth Stood Still” – and using the by, within the unique quick tale, it changed into the robotic that become the grasp and in rate, now not the flesh-and-blood alien Klaatu). And who can forget about R2-D2 or 3CPO (“Star Wars”)? So, IMHO, if you have an up-close and personal stumble upon with an ET, it’s now not going to be with biological intelligence; however, with technological or synthetic intelligence.
Extraterrestrial or terrestrial, our sci-fi films are full of intelligent machines or robots, from “I, Robot” to “Futureworld” and “Westworld” (where not anything can cross wrong, pass incorrect, go incorrect, move wrong) to “Cherry 2000” to “The Stepford Wives” to “Saturn 3” to the “Bicentennial Man” to the whole “Transformers” collection. Today it’s sci-fi; the next day, it is technological know-how-reality.
Several motives are proposed for why.
THE RISE AND RISE OF THE MACHINE
Any scientifically advanced alien society will subsequently invent the pc or equal. Once invented, you can’t place the genie again into the bottle. Machines were gaining the upper hand right here at Terra Firma and were ever considering that human beings got here up with the idea of a tool. If you doubt this, ask any normal teenager/young adult to do without their mobile/clever-cellphone and/or tablet; ask a housewife to forgo the programmable microwave oven, her vacuum purifier, or programmable dishwasher; ask a househusband to hand over the faraway or the keys to his new purple sports automobile with the country of the art GPS and other pc programmable accessories (essential remedy for those laid low with male menopause). And where would NASA be without all the robot probes to the Moon and planets (several of which ought to have a rudimentary degree of intelligence because radio instructions from Earth can take quite some time to reach the planetary rover)? Even if one excludes non-programmable ‘dumb’ machines and system technologies like clothes dryers, espresso makers, lawnmowers, and radar, the quantity of ‘smart’ machines – brilliant computer systems, PCs, tablets, clever-phones, and so forth. It is getting rattling close right now to the human population. One can even buy these days robot toys, ‘pets’ or even companions for the sick, elderly, outcasts, or lonely. Can sex with robotic companions be some distance behind?
Computing crunch strength will increase via order of magnitude faster than organic wetware crunch energy (Moore’s Law). The human highbrow capability hasn’t expanded very plenty, if at all, over the past 50,000 years or so – our IQ has flat-lined. Even though off to a slow beginning all those 50,000 years in the past, machine intelligence is growing at an exponential rate. The strains need to pass sooner or later, someday. The crossover point is tipped for the not-too-distant destiny and likely within the lifetime of the maximum viewers reading this. Computer packages can already beat you on every occasion at chess and a bunch of other games besides.
Unlike people, computer systems can link as much as form an exquisite computer (do not forget the film “Colossus: The Forbin Project”); in any other case, regarded nowadays because of the Internet. In other words, artificial intelligence can ultimately merge with any other synthetic intelligence to create a mega artificial intelligence, which in turn ought to merge with every other mega synthetic intelligence, and so forth.
As stated above, there will come a time whilst gadget intelligence, synthetic intelligence, surpasses organic or wetware intelligence. That becomes a point at which computers will become intelligent and self-aware enough to bypass the Turing Test – it is where a person can not inform the distinction between a human and a pc answering questions in an interview sort of situation.
Once wetware turns dependent on software, shrewd self-aware machines call the shots, and they may be on top of things. Whether this human-gadget dating stays a symbiotic one or no longer isn’t always relevant since the courting will no longer be 50-50, recall the “Terminator” films!
The increase in artificial intelligence will increase even more quickly and faster, especially as intelligent machines can design their subsequent technology. The technology after that relies on days, hours, and minutes. And a replica isn’t a problem. ‘Asexual’ robotic replica is a given – one gadget builds a duplicate, or much more likely as not, a higher copy of itself, and as many as deemed vital, specifically if they’re sent out into the cosmos to ‘boldly move’ in which likely lots of different robotics probes from other civilizations have gone earlier than. See beneath.
In the timeline of any technologically advanced alien society, the odds are outstanding. The bulk of that timeline could be represented by using artificial intelligence relative to wetware or organic intelligence.
Most alien societies could be now not just dozens, loads, thousands of years in advance of human society, however masses of millions to thousands and thousands of years more advanced. That is to mention, most alien societies might be artificially intelligent societies; robotic societies, if you may.
They have, for all practical functions, robots or intelligent computer systems or synthetic intelligence (for lack of a better word or word), could have a lifespan measured in such timeframes as to make any interstellar travel equal to human beings taking a stroll around their nearby park. There’s no want for energy-intensive interstellar velocities even remotely coming near the velocity of mild. The galaxy has been around long sufficient to allow for exploration (and colonization) hundreds of times over, at even expansion rates of one percent light speed.
