[anoniuyiu33412]

maybe we are just "ants" for them. That would be the current intelligence level of humanity for aliens.

Doesn't the cities, human civilization on Earth feel like a big messy anthill?

All our society could feel for them just like what we see when we look to what ants have built.

"Nice engineering down there, they communicate using sounds and directed energy, nice they've discovered electricity, they solve their conflict using mostly primitive kinetic weapons. Hey they have developed shows to fill the free time they've got now after having setup some automatization. And now they have a planet reaching data network, how nice.

They're quite aggressive tough, I wouldn't put my finger in there, they bite, hard enough"

[kbenson]

I don't expect ants, either as an individual ant or as a colony, to necessarily be able to hold a conversation given enough time, but an alien species more advanced than us, or a godlike AI, may expect at some point in the future we might be able to, or might birth something that is able to (if not, where did they come from?), which is why I think they would be more likely to view us as infants currently incapable of conversing with them usefully rather than bugs with no hope of doing so.