Researchers think AI and lasers might help us talk to aliens 

Humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life for decades and trying to communicate with potentially advanced civilizations beyond the stars. So far, the SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and METI (messaging extraterrestrial intelligence) have been unsuccessful at finding intelligent life in the universe.

Still, we're in the early days, and our efforts will ramp up as soon as new technological advances permit. It's not just about reaching planets where alien civilizations might thrive with the help of spaceships. It's also about communicating at massive distances using highly advanced methods.

With the dawn of generative AI products like ChatGPT, two scientists propose using AI language models to talk to alien civilizations. To get the custom AI models to the alien civilizations, we'd have to develop new communication methods, like powerful lasers, to beam the data into space.

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