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"Alien" superintelligence learning human languages

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A quote from Story of Your Life (the short novel that Arrival movie is based on)

Colonel Weber frowned. "You seem to be implying that no alien could have learned human languages by monitoring our broadcasts."

"I doubt it. They'd need instructional material specifically designed to teach human languages to non-humans."

Superintelligence (from Wikipedia):

is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. "Superintelligence" may also refer to a property of problem-solving systems (e.g., superintelligent language translators

Let's say that there's an alien probe orbiting the Earth. The alien probe is an artificial superintelligence and it is monitoring all broadcasts leaving the Earth since the very start.

To talk/write to us, an alien artificial superintelligence really need a dedicated "Grammar practice for Elementary Artificial Alien Superintelligence Students"? It can't learn at least one language from our broadcasts? How can it do that?

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