It will be essential for us as a species to maintain superiority, but [...] we are not the pinnacle of creation,” he says.

an animated AI companion from a startup with roots in Seattle and a host of big-name tech backers. Portola is the company behind the alien creatures who are out to become our new virtual best friends.

The AI model's current output is small electromagnetic structures, but looking to the future, researchers will likely use these and similar findings to develop ever-more complex circuits by ...

But, he adds, there's another aspect of the technology, which he described as "alien intelligence ... I don't think that's so ...

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their quest to discover alien life. A new machine-learning algorithm has been trained for this purpose, making use of living cells ...

If you scale that up to the whole Galaxy, you could be looking at billions. Astronomers think that AI aliens would prefer to hang out in high-energy hotspots, like black holes or supermassive stars.