I personally doubt it, AI machines require a high functioning society to create and support which is by my estimation only going to make such things even more rare. I think it more likely to find organic compounds like what has been claimed about findings on Mars and even there I am not so sure that I trust the report.
Not because I think that Mars never produced rudimentary life or better but because I am a bit skeptical about NASA's claims at times. It would make sense to me that if Mars ever held a viable atmosphere for a long enough time that life would develop on it.
The scouts would be machines, for sure. If it takes like 1+ years to travel a light year? Scouting potential planets would be essential before sending life-forms for further study of them.
There could be "potentially viable planets" in a lot of systems, eh? Telescopes can only tell us so much, getting probes into orbit is required. Then getting the data back! That's also needed.
Wouldn't we be much more likely to encounter AI machines than anything else?
I personally doubt it, AI machines require a high functioning society to create and support which is by my estimation only going to make such things even more rare. I think it more likely to find organic compounds like what has been claimed about findings on Mars and even there I am not so sure that I trust the report.
Not because I think that Mars never produced rudimentary life or better but because I am a bit skeptical about NASA's claims at times. It would make sense to me that if Mars ever held a viable atmosphere for a long enough time that life would develop on it.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-finds-organic-molecules-never-seen-before-on-mars/
Just so everyone is clear "organic" molecules and compounds aren't even close to "life".
They're hydrocarbons; at least, everything but the most basic of basic hydrocarbons.
Methane, for example, which occurs all over the place without anything resembling life, is an organic molecule.
The scouts would be machines, for sure. If it takes like 1+ years to travel a light year? Scouting potential planets would be essential before sending life-forms for further study of them.
There could be "potentially viable planets" in a lot of systems, eh? Telescopes can only tell us so much, getting probes into orbit is required. Then getting the data back! That's also needed.