{"id":149346,"date":"2022-11-02T15:25:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/will-ai-reveal-extraterrestrial-intelligence-far-beyond-our-level-of-consciousness"},"modified":"2022-11-02T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:25:14","slug":"will-ai-reveal-extraterrestrial-intelligence-far-beyond-our-level-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/will-ai-reveal-extraterrestrial-intelligence-far-beyond-our-level-of-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Will AI Reveal Extraterrestrial Intelligence Far Beyond Our Level of Consciousness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lh0skjMpJHo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMachine learning provides a way of providing almost human-like intuition to huge data sets. One valuable application is for tasks where it\u2019s difficult to write a specific algorithm to search for something\u2014human faces, for instance, or perhaps \u201d something strange,\u201d wrote astrophysicist and Director of the Penn State University Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center,<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.psu.edu\/astrowright\/jason-t-wright-assistant-professor-of-astronomy-and-astrophysics\/\"> Jason Wright<\/a> in an email to <i>The Daily Galaxy<\/i>. \u201d In this case, you can train a machine-learning algorithm to recognize certain things you expect to see in a data set,\u201d Wright explains, \u201d and ask it for things that don\u2019t fit those expectations, or perhaps that match your expectations of a technosignature.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crowdsourcing Alien Structures<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For instance,\u2019 Wright notes, theoretical physicist <a href=\"https:\/\/cosmos.asu.edu\/\">Paul Davies<\/a> has suggested crowdsourcing the task of looking for alien structures or artifacts on the Moon by posting imaging data on a site like Zooniverse and looking for anomalies. Some researchers (led by<a href=\"https:\/\/ch.linkedin.com\/in\/dananger\"> Daniel Angerhausen<\/a>) have instead trained machine-learning algorithms to recognize common terrain features, and report back things it doesn\u2019t recognize, essentially automating that task. Sure enough, the algorithm can identify real signs of technology on the Moon\u2014like the Apollo landing sites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMachine learning provides a way of providing almost human-like intuition to huge data sets. One valuable application is for tasks where it\u2019s difficult to write a specific algorithm to search for something\u2014human faces, for instance, or perhaps \u201d something strange,\u201d wrote astrophysicist and Director of the Penn State University Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, Jason Wright in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}