[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.