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...