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Blair reported in mid-May 2023 that humans have been trying to discover aliens for a very long time. We have been mostly unsuccessful, though.

@future_explored shows us how AI might be showing us up (again):

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 How Will Aliens Reveal Themselves To The Rest Of The World?

I do not like that one bit. Two things in this world freak me out more than anything else: aliens and artificial intelligence. If they start working together? I'm done. As freaky as this is, it's also really cool. The team, called Breakthrough Listen, tested their AI over in West Virginia by giving it data from a nearby radio telescope. From there, it identified over 20,000 signals that were unique. However, the team still had to look through all 20,000 themselves, and ended up with 8 signals that could be a sign alien life. 

The desire to have a stronger AI comes from a desire to eliminate the extra work for the experts, who still have to comb through the results. Ideally, an AI would be able to sort through the unique signals itself as well as identify signals that could just be the result of interference.  Luckily, the same team recently organized a study using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. In their study, the goal was to craft a program that could be used to identify signs of extraterrestrial life that's more accurate than that original AI which "found" the aliens in the first place."

The MeerKAT telescope, which is one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world, picks up on the radio waves that are constantly being emitted from space. This happens without AI, but the Breakthrough Listen team took it one step further. Since the telescope gets thousands of signals, the team created AI software which would sift through them with relative ease. 

 

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