[Ekaros]

Also even if we got lucky and found AM signal of some alien speech. Would we have any idea how to translate that? My understanding is that we already have human text which we cannot translate. And that has some ties to existing concepts we know of. With truly alien speech we would have zero context or share concepts.

[amelius]

But we could apply GPT-3 and send alien speech back ...

[sph]

Artificial Intelligence is modeled after human intelligence. It's pretty much useless against a true alien mind, unless we imagine aliens as being human-like with a different shaped body.

The beauty of the film Arrival was showing the challenge of interacting with a truly alien language.

[tomcatfish]

Artificial intelligence is modeled after abstractions on the concept of learning, not human thought. We just name things so that they'll be fun and easy to discuss, but (for example) there's no "human neuron" floating around in the matrix math that you see in some popular techniques.

[sph]

Sure, but would GPT-3 be able to interpret dolphin chatter just by somehow using dolphin audio as input? I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure it won't work out of the box and we're still far away from achieving that result. And dolphins are closer to us in type of intelligence (i.e. central neuro-electric mass with peripheral connections mediated by the exact same chemicals) than any hypothetical extraterrestrial species.

[neuronic]

Can you also apply GPT-3 to understand whales and dolphins?