“The biggest challenge for us in looking for SETI signals is not at this point getting the data,” says Sofia Sheikh, an astronomer at the SETI Institute. “The difficult part is differentiating signals from human or Earth technology from the kind of signals we’d be looking for from technology somewhere else out in the Galaxy.”
Enter machine learning. Machine-learning algorithms are trained on large amounts of data and can learn to recognize features that are characteristic of Earthly interference, making them very good at filtering out the noise.Machine learning is also good at picking up candidate extraterrestrial signals that don’t fall into conventional categories and so might have been missed by earlier methods, says Dan Werthimer, a SETI scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ma and his colleagues sifted through Breakthrough Listen observations of 820 stars, made using the 100-metre Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. They built machine-learning software to analyse the data, which netted nearly three million signals of interest but discarded most as Earth-based interference. Ma then manually reviewed around 20,000 signals and narrowed them down to 8 intriguing candidates.
Can it listen in on the Chinese spy balloons 🎈?
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Machine learning is not the same as 'an AI' Pedantic nerd dad out
This is the only ethical use for AI - imho.
Another tool in the chest for the search 🔍 for ET. My tiny contribution was crunching numbers for BerkeleySETI BOINCNetwork
BenHolsinger1 Looking in wrong direction.
SETIInstitute If an AI was the first to discover alien life, would they tell us? 🛸
SETIInstitute I just can't help thinking that ET life, if it exists and is more advanced than us, regard radio waves the same way that we think of cave paintings. They will probably communicate via quantum entanglement. It's quicker. Don't laugh. Come back from the future and thank me.
Homo Sapiens is the byproduct of 🧬 manipulation, not just natural selection. The genome project showed 'alien DNA'. Palaeolithic period cave art depicts visitors that strongly resemble grey 👽. Don't need AI for this at all. Let it work on cancer or better use of crops etc.
RonyVernet ….Or Navy pilots
Lol. Or will the AI make up an alien life form and then lie to humans?
What if an alien AI is discovering us?
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will or never /was.
A waste of money, time and effort. Instead of trying so hard to find intelligent life in space – which I doubt exists, we should work on exploring real scientific matters.
I read this book years ago.
I was hoping for news from Avi Loeb and GalileoProject1 by now.
Why are we looking for extraterrestrial life in deep space when we have government acknowledgment of extraterrestrial life buzzing our nuclear bases and subs right here on Earth?
We are still waiting for ET to return. 🙁
Whoever developed intelligent humans here, may have done the same elsewhere too. But that creator made sure that these humans don’t get to communicate and meet.
Is an AI an alien life despite having originated here? That's a good baseline thing to figure out first I think.
No
Will AI be a liar?
Yes, if gloves 'touch' handlebars or umbrellas 'feel' rain or jackets 'cheat' wind or soles 'seek God' Of course not it is a tool made by a toolmaker extraordinaire Lifeless unable to replicate itself without huge pre-pre-pre-natal care and a successful disbelief partition-ectomy
Probably. Maybe AI is already a manifestation of alien life...
Alone in de Universe. Jonh Gribbin. Fermi paradox.
…which will be an AI, right?