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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by mulmen on Thursday February 09, 2023 @05:38PM (#34732690)
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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by nocoiner on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:54AM (#34736140)
So many of my favorite references in this thread. I was delighted to find Neuromancer at the top of the comments, and this here.
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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:25AM (#34738301)
s/just/exactly

But 'Interesting. Please continue?'

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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by mulmen on Friday February 10, 2023 @10:50AM (#34741219)
The implication is that the AI follows instructions to make contact but the human operators then misinterpret the results as static.
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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by LargoLasskhyfv on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:07AM (#34741537)
Hm. That wasn't what I've been referring to.

Near the end of the movie Contact, where two higher ranking TLA-agents discuss the lack of evidence for the things the protagonist told, which allegedly happened to her, but weren't captured on anything.

Out of my head...One: 'Bla bla bla.' The other: 'Bla bla just static.' One: 'Yes, exactly 18 hours of static.' The other: 'Continue...' Or something like ironically: 'Interesting. Please continue?'

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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by mulmen on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:33PM (#34744569)
Yes and my implication was that if we replaced those TLA agents with an AGI then the "Interesting. Please continue." might not be asked by a human, or at all because it is "just" (merely, not barely) static.

Here is the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeUuFHGj6TM.

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Re:AI Joins Hunt for ET: Study Finds 8 Potential Alien Signals by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:22AM (#34749835)
Whoa! I remembered that so wrong. Sorry ;->
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