nf3xn, 1 month ago

@arstechnica data scientists proving beyond doubt once again that general intelligence is much more elusive than highly specialised intelligence. 😂

zheng3_jim, 1 month ago

@arstechnica Fire that probe right into the Torment Nexus and see what happens.

ministerofimpediments, 1 month ago

@arstechnica
Aliens: “Well, the probe said a human named Benjamin Franklin was their leader, they all wanted death, and an animal species called a duck was a color called purple. Have we found the duck-animal yet? That’s last on the list…”

alltherum, 1 month ago

@arstechnica We have to at least figure out how to get them to give correct answers to basic arithmetic questions.

I could also imagine that, in a large enough interstellar community, those things would be indistinguishable from spam (or worse, be recognized as a symptom of a species doomed to a technology singularity).

janeadams, 1 month ago

@alltherum @arstechnica

micron, 1 month ago

@arstechnica 🤦‍♂️

liiwi, 1 month ago

@arstechnica How about we simulate it first?

ramonakira, 1 month ago

@arstechnica Talk about insanity

depereo, 1 month ago

@arstechnica Ah, so instead of sending a message of hope and greetings to the stars, like with Voyager, we send a nonsense vortex. Great.

invadersil, 1 month ago

@arstechnica Bobiverse is becoming real. Nice.

anthropy, 1 month ago

@arstechnica VoyagerGPT: "Hello! I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help I'm happy to help--"

alien xenobiologists: "this species seems to get stuck in repetition easily"