{"id":159592,"date":"2023-03-05T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/machine-learning-joins-the-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence"},"modified":"2023-03-05T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:23:12","slug":"machine-learning-joins-the-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/machine-learning-joins-the-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Machine learning joins the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/machine-learning-joins-the-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the <em><i>Physics World<\/i> Weekly<\/em> podcast we meet three scientists who are trying to answer a question that humanity has long pondered: does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterma.ca\/\">Peter Ma<\/a> and Leandro Rizk of the University of Toronto and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seti.org\/our-scientists\/cherry-ng\">Cherry Ng<\/a> of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Orleans are part of a team that has used machine learning to identify eight potential \u201ctechnosignatures\u201d in data from the Robert C Byrd Green Bank Telescope. The trio explain how they look for signs of intelligent life in radio-telescope data and how machine learning gives a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>Ng also talks about her research on how signals from pulsars could be used to detect gravitational waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast we meet three scientists who are trying to answer a question that humanity has long pondered: does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the universe? Peter Ma and Leandro Rizk of the University of Toronto and Cherry Ng of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159592","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}