Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Find Aliens?

So far, scientists have struggled to prove the existence of aliens, but now Jill Tarter and others at the SETI institute believe that artificial intelligence can be used to detect techno-signatures that they may have overlooked earlier.

Identifying Intelligence

As humans think about encountering extraterrestrial intelligence, we first need to define what “intelligence” actually is.

Humans aren’t the only species to have intelligence—we have more of it than other species on Earth but we’re not the only ones with it.

Chimps have culture and know how to use tools. Insects like spiders can process information using their webs. Cetaceans (whales, dolphins & porpoises) have dialects. Beavers can engineer dams and crows comprehend analogies.

There’s plenty of non-human intelligence, culture and language on the planet.

So what does all this mean? For all we know, intelligent aliens can look like whales, ants, octopuses, human, humanoid, other bi-peddle lifeforms or anything else.

Many people on Earth not directly experienced with extraterrestrials have developed an image of aliens in their minds—thanks to pop-culture—but as of yet, there is no evidence the vast majority of non-classified people on Earth can find to prove that extraterrestrials are actually like they've been imagining them.

The Alternate Approach

In the 1990s, the American government decided to stop funding SETI, which forced the institute to turn to Silicon Valley for help.

SETI’s partners in Silicon Valley helped them with technology, ideas and needed funding.

The Frontier Development

Today, the SETI institute alongside Intel, NASA, IBM and others are taking on outer space using an AI R&D program named the Frontier Development Lab.

The AI program uses machine-learning techniques to spot fluctuations in data that can indicate interstellar activity.

Tech engineers and scientists are using AI (artificial intelligence) to create simulations of what they think extraterrestrial radio signals may look like.

 

A senior AI consultant working at the SETI institute states that extraterrestrials may be using technology in unimaginable ways. Since we’re unaware of what their technology looks like, non-classified scientists not in the 'know' believe they have no way to find them—and this is where AI comes into the picture.

In some circles it is thought that AI can exceed human intelligence; therefore, it has a better chance of detecting alien activity. This is just theoretical and has yet to be proven.

Others think humans may not have a way of increasing their own intelligence, yet the also believe we are capable of making machines that are far more capable of manipulating vast amounts of data than we are. This by itself does not make computers more intelligent than a human being, just faster as calculating data inputted into them.

While the rest of humanity continues to ponder over the existence of extraterrestrials, there are people on Earth that have already interacted with them. If the scientific community began to take their experiences more seriously, we may get one-step closer to meeting intelligent extraterrestrials through an open full-disclosure process.

Direct Experience-based Hidden Truth Revealing Researcher and author R. Scott Lemriel has a wealth of information on extraterrestrials and knows why many people around the world without direct experience incorrectly believe humanity has not yet encountered them. To uncover or awaken the deliberately hidden or subconsciously suppressed truth - humanity’s greatest well-kept secrets, explore Lemriel’s books The Seres Agenda and The Emerald Doorway - book one of The Parallel Time Trilogy.