AI Could Explain Why We're Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes

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Artificial Intelligence is making its presence felt in thousands of different ways. It helps scientists make sense of vast troves of data; it helps detect financial fraud; it drives our cars; it feeds us music suggestions; its chatbots drive us crazy. And it's only getting started.

Are we capable of understanding how quickly AI will continue to develop? And if the answer is no, does that constitute the Great Filter?

The Fermi Paradox is the discrepancy between the apparent high likelihood of advanced civilizations existing and the total lack of evidence that they do exist. Many solutions have been proposed for why the discrepancy exists. One of the ideas is the 'Great Filter.'

The Great Filter is a hypothesized event or situation that prevents intelligent life from becoming interplanetary and interstellar and even leads to its demise. Think climate change, nuclear war, asteroid strikes, supernova explosions, plagues, or any number of other things from the rogue's gallery of cataclysmic events.

 

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[Piney]

The Great Filter is a good hypothesis. Scary, but possible.

[Hazzard]

3 hours ago, Piney said:

The Great Filter is a good hypothesis. Scary, but possible.

I like the Zoo hypothesis better.