Avi Loeb

You know, it's just like LLMs, those artificial intelligence systems.

They are trained on data sets and they reflect those data sets.

Of course.

Think about an extraterrestrial, an alien, a real alien.

Their data set is far bigger than what we find here on Earth because there is much more real estate if you look up.

And so imagining, I was actually faced with this dilemma because the most accomplished sculptor in the US called Greg Wyatt, he gave me the foundation of a sculpture and I decided to make it about, to call it the alien.

So I had to come up with

sculpture that will be now cast in in in bronze actually in the coming months so you designed the alien yeah what does he look like well i tried to ask the question if you look at the human body obviously it's not optimized i would if i had if i was an architect i would put it differently because one thing we're missing is for example a third eye that can look backwards right that must have been a disadvantage people can surprise you from the back

Why don't we have another eye?

Probably it's a matter of data processing.

It wasn't that bad because you can turn your head maybe, and so that saved the lives of our ancestors.

So I put a third eye in the sculpture, and I put also wings that would allow it to fly and fly.

go in water and I put the three, I put the tentacles that come out of it with electronic, with connectors to electronic gadgets.

I put the three legs that would allow it to move in difficult terrain.

You took the Copernican principle and threw it away.

You threw it away, yes?

Copernican principle where everything is sort of, we expect to see the same type of physiology everywhere, but you created new physiology?

I just ask, if I were the architect,

And I'm not pretending to be God here.

If I were to design something better.