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.
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.