Artificial intelligence could help hunt for life on Mars and other alien worlds

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A new machine learning model could point researchers toward the most promising abodes for life away from Earth.

Biosignature probability maps from convolutional neural network models and statistical ecology data. The colors in a) indicate the probability of biosignature detection. In b) is a visible image of a gypsum dome geologic feature with biosignature probability maps for various microhabitats within it.

The team discovered that their system could, by combining statistical ecology with AI, locate and detect biosignatures up to 87.5% of the time. This is in comparison to no more than a 10% success rate achieved by random searches. Additionally, the program could decrease the area needed for a search by as much as 97%, thus helping scientists significantly hone in their hunt for potential chemical traces of life, or biosignatures.

."We hope other astrobiology teams adapt our approach to mapping other habitable environments and biosignatures." "With these models, we can design tailor-made roadmaps and algorithms to guide rovers to places with the highest probability of harboring past or present life — no matter how hidden or rare," Warren-Rhodes explained. The team chose Salar de Pajonales as a testing stage from their machine learning model because it is a suitable analog for the dry and arid landscape of modern-day. The region is a high-altitude dry salt lakebed that is blasted with a high degree of ultraviolet radiation.

 

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I Wonder if Solar Flares hit Mars like you lie and say they hit earth just yesterday, , Are you trying to setup Communications Blackout for the DS? Do you take orders from the DS? Do you Lie for the DS? I think so!

Let s survive here first...

...enhance

CoreyGoode I heard telepathy is more efficient

Intelligence there is in a Philosophically System with God in the middle. Write a book about it will be a Bestseller.

The fact that you call it a hunt might be the reason you won’t find any if it’s not dumb.

Yeah and it could also help on adventures with aliens if we had the technology.

AI is already doing that.

OuiOUI👀'

Yesss!

That's Mars? ... looks more like a homeless encampment in Cali.

AI might help us find life and destroy it at the same time.

So far all Ive seen are inference engines, but maybe Ive missed something. Ultimately having the AI really calculate the chances is pretty useful. And having it self-calculate them so the hypothesizer isnt so biased with results, thats nice to have.

Still trying to figure out what the obsession is here. There's a high probability that Mars does not have life or if it did it died a very long time ago. I'm far more interested in your plans to terraform Mars which is not an easy problem

I have always waited for this day to come

You keep forgetting it was programmed by a human human can't figure it out it won't figure it out

Let’s just cgi the results for tv!

Duh…

If it's in a person, it will help the operator run all the tools sent with. Like a habitat printer, vehicles, excavation equipment for digging up water, write code for and create tech on the fly.

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