Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...

To simulate how language may evolve, we give agents (AIs) simple tasks that require communication, like a game where one ...

Fifty years ago, the famed Arecibo message was fired into space to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Now is ...

In an exciting project aimed at imagining what a message from extraterrestrials might look like, a simulated alien signal was ...

A long-awaited hearing that promised to “pull back the curtain” on UFOs has heard from witnesses about alleged secret crash retrieval programs and communication with non-human intelligence.

The methods we’re developing for understanding AI languages could help us decipher any future alien communications. If we are able to obtain some written alien text together with some context (such as ...

This ambiguity mirrors the challenges we might face when attempting to interpret genuine extraterrestrial communications, which could be vastly different from human forms of expression. The success of ...

For all we know, alien communication might more resemble a collection of odors or the movements of a pile of leaves in the wind than anything we recognize as language. Still, the search has to ...

The methods we’re developing for understanding AI languages could help us decipher any future alien communications. If we are able to obtain some written alien text together with some context (such as ...

Olaf Lipinski receives funding from UK Research and Innovation Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-electronic Devices and Systems. In the 2016 science fiction movie ...