One way of sending data is following: Aliens can send an easily recognisable 2D images using principles of TV: line ending symbols every n bites. Using pictures, they will send blueprints of a simple computer, like a Turing machine, and then a code for it. This computer will draw and adapt a blueprint of a more efficient computer, which can run more complex code which will be AI.
The AI would still need to be relatively simple or trained after being built, right, if they wouldn’t be able to encode billions of parameter values in the images?
The complexity of the human genome puts a rough upper bound on how many parameters would be required to specify an AGI (it will have more learned parameters, once deployed). Of course, a superintelligence capable of taking over the world is harder to bound.
One further thing to note is that an alien AI might require a lot of memory and processing power to perform its intended task. As I wrote in the post, this is one reason to suppose that aliens might want to target civilizations after they have achieved a certain level of technological development. Because otherwise their scheme might fail.
One way of sending data is following: Aliens can send an easily recognisable 2D images using principles of TV: line ending symbols every n bites. Using pictures, they will send blueprints of a simple computer, like a Turing machine, and then a code for it. This computer will draw and adapt a blueprint of a more efficient computer, which can run more complex code which will be AI.
The AI would still need to be relatively simple or trained after being built, right, if they wouldn’t be able to encode billions of parameter values in the images?
The complexity of the human genome puts a rough upper bound on how many parameters would be required to specify an AGI (it will have more learned parameters, once deployed). Of course, a superintelligence capable of taking over the world is harder to bound.
One further thing to note is that an alien AI might require a lot of memory and processing power to perform its intended task. As I wrote in the post, this is one reason to suppose that aliens might want to target civilizations after they have achieved a certain level of technological development. Because otherwise their scheme might fail.