Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "If anybody's interest in either LLMs or SETI, or both, and…"
Funny thing about LLMs - they are Language models, trained on a good chunk of total human writing. Fits human language kind of like a glove.
To study alien transmissions with similar technology, we would have to train it on a large corpus of alien writing. Once that happens, the model will detect statistically likely chunks of noisy alien transmisisons, and fill-in the blanks and such.
Mar 27 · 6 weeks ago
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🚀 lars_the_bear [OP] · Mar 27 at 08:00:
@stack : "To study alien transmissions with similar technology, we would have to train it on a large corpus of alien writing"
To be fair to the researchers here, they're really only trying to determine whether the data is encoded, and how. The actual contents aren't particularly relevant.
It's generally possible to tell whether a stream of numbers is an encoded message or just random, by an analysis of its entropy. There are ways to figure out what the encoding scheme is, just as there are ways to decrypt an encrypted message when you don't know the encryption scheme. Tricky, of course, but sometimes possible.
How you would train an LLM to do this, I have no clue.
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If anybody's interest in either LLMs or SETI, or both, and has five minutes to spare, I'd welcome your views on this: [gemini link]