What Does Extraterrestrial Intelligence Look Like?

In a dozen interviews over the past week, I was repeatedly asked to define intelligence. My response was that intelligence represents the ability to process and communicate information for the pursuit of goals. The more complex the information is, the more intelligent its carrier is. A genius is someone who displays efficiency by identifying an insightful shortcut to solve a complex problem, an oracle of sorts. So far, humans have celebrated their local status as the most intelligent species on Earth. This legitimized listing lifeforms with a lower intelligence on restaurant menus. But as soon as artificial intelligence (AI) systems acquire more connections than the number of synapses in the human brain, we might be outsmarted on Earth by our technological products. An artificial, super-human intelligence will bring a sense of modesty to our status in the universe,  <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/how-does-extraterrestrial-intelligence-look-like-61bb430125c4">Website</a>