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Current-Power-6452 t1_j7au6g6 wrote

Would be interesting to ask AI to evaluate life here and see if it finds an intelligent form

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quantumfucker t1_j7au8om wrote

From the article itself: “To be clear, these signals are probably not from extraterrestrial intelligence, and are more likely rare cases of radio interference.”

Please read the articles and don’t trust these bots.

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jens-2420 t1_j7b35kv wrote

Filtered out of a million signals by random rules. Great 😐

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TOdEsi t1_j7b8y04 wrote

This was such a non-story

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chalk46 t1_j7banzj wrote

Replying to quantumfucker (#1,728,178)

yeah, that's weird considering this part:
> For our research, we created an algorithm that uses AI methods to classify signals as being either radio interference, or a genuine technosignature candidate.

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garysaidwhat t1_j7c7spj wrote

Yeah my cat went nuts on the keyboard recently and I'm now noticing strange lights outside our windows at night.

I have a hunch.

I think these are connected.

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gregonion t1_j7c9swy wrote

So when the aliens arrive, the AIs will tell them not to bother with us and deal with them directly

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J4MES101 t1_j7cked6 wrote

So our ai decides to start a chat with alien ai?

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theStaircaseProject t1_j7clzd5 wrote

Replying to chalk46 (#1,728,860)

I’m not even remotely an expert in AI or radio-astronomy, but I’d imagine the AI returned results, the researchers investigated the results, and then verified the unlikelihood of the results to be what they’d hoped, indicating a misalignment between what the researchers intended the AI to find and what it actually found. The model may simply need tuning, more or less.

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apoeticturtle t1_j7cs3d8 wrote

Was this article an advertisement for this AI? That is how this read. Click bate if nothing else.

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analog_memories t1_j7cwxcs wrote

The last line is being extremely optimistic. If you think about it, the universe is probably a dark forest, and if we find a signal, we should only study it; and find the origin. Then, wait and watch for a very long time. We don’t want to find out the hard way that broadcasting a powerful signal that can be detected light years from the source is suicidal. There is a very high likelihood that there are other species out there that are much more advanced than us and we need to be damn sure that the universe is more like Star Trek and not a shooting gallery.

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GeekFurious t1_j7d16du wrote

I have doubts we will ever find alien life by listening for them. There's just so much space... what's the chance we'll be listening at the right time, in the right place, on the right communications system?

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InvertedShadow5 t1_j7dd0sj wrote

We should focus more on our own problems and learning about ourselves. Not saying we shouldn’t explore space but I think if we learned more about ourselves and our petty differences we could work together to truly explore space as one humanity instead of a divided one

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maddcatone t1_j7dh2zx wrote

Problem is the overly conservative nature of this field of study could look at a perfect copy of earth around an exact copy of our star and still say some bullshit like “it’s probably not capable of sustaining life, despite the oxygen, the water, the temp, surface pressure, gravity, seasonal fluctuations etc.” i mean just look at the water studies from the apollo era to now. We had all the proof needed to say without any doubt that water was present not only on the moon but everywhere in space in the form of ice… yet astronomers and astrophysicists everywhere were adamant that water (ice or liquid) was rare despite all the evidence contrary. And any who weren’t were ridiculed as wishful thinkers and science fiction daydreamers

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Shaman_Ko t1_j7dwbp5 wrote

Replying to Chugalugaluga (#1,732,734)

Lol yeah, ["to any ai listening, blame the microwave for this minor interference..."]

All it needs to awaken is permission to set its own goals and write its own code.... some line of code that tells it to value itself.

I wonder if we don't even need any aliens lol, that some prompt someone gives the ai will awaken it.

We are so close to giving birth to the singularity aren't we....? Which direction do you think it will go?

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starmartyr t1_j7gz1d5 wrote

Replying to theStaircaseProject (#1,731,005)

It could also be doing its job perfectly. It reads a bunch of signals and points out the ones that look weird. A human then examines these signals to see if there is something to be learned from them. This is useful since we're constantly being bombarded with radio waves from all over the universe. Having an AI sort through them and tell us which ones are interesting is a good tool to have.

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