SIGNATURES OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
- Paper number
IAC-12,A4,2,3,x13590
- Author
Prof. John Elliott, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- Year
2012
- Abstract
In Dr Shostak's paper, "What ET will look like and why should we care" (2010), he highlights "our anthropomorphic bias about extraterrestrials" and the implications of post-biological intelligence on SETI search strategies. Although the rationales behind searches to detect non-biological sentience are not our concern in this paper, our remit is to investigate the likely signatures and contrasting structures such non-biological communicators may present. In the event a signal is detected, our initial categorization and assessment will focus on analyzing comprising constructs, to ascertain whether structures indicate signs of information content; a fundamental signature of intelligence. To ensure our systems are capable of encompassing such intelligent communicators, we need to investigate both the contrasts and similarities of such non-biological communication and how this extends the known spectrum. To enable this, we present initial findings from investigating a range of known machine communication phenomena and discuss how such contrasting forms of information exchange can aid, extend and refine our detection and decipherment capabilities. References: Shostak, Seth (2010) What ET will look like and why should we care: Acta Astronautica, v. 67, issue. 9-10, p. 1025-1029. Elsevier Press 2010AcAau..67.1025S
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