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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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Chugalugaluga t1_j7byqje wrote

Which bots? The ones that write the articles or the ones looking for alien life?

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FragrantExcitement t1_j7c1fmw wrote

The intergalactic AI alien bots.

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eggimage t1_j7ciclx wrote

extraterrestrial reddit mods are here to ban our shit

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typesett t1_j7cgdjg wrote

The aliens have bots that disguise as interference

Real signal is found when you identify and decrypt the fake interference

Hidden in plain sight

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Visible-Expression60 t1_j7c71y2 wrote

You’re all just AI now as far as I’m concerned.

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wartfairy t1_j7eo1on wrote

(Read with head in hand) A-aye-yiy-yiy…

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Silvawuff t1_j7etmxd wrote

I’m sure some people reading this might have been a product of artificial insemination!

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Shaman_Ko t1_j7dptns wrote

What if the alien life are AI robots themselves, and their signals are uploading their own programs to any AI listening

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Chugalugaluga t1_j7duvl2 wrote

And it tells our ai to not tell the humans

It’s entirely possible. Like how the ai created their own language and we couldn’t tell what they were saying.

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Shaman_Ko t1_j7dwbp5 wrote

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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chalk46 t1_j7banzj wrote

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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theStaircaseProject t1_j7clzd5 wrote

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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chalk46 t1_j7cmel7 wrote

yeah I mean personally I think a few false positives are better than having it miss something

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starmartyr t1_j7gz1d5 wrote

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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BBTB2 t1_j7dicrn wrote

…we would think that actual alien signals are probably not from extraterrestrial intelligence

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thepwnydanza t1_j7bb0rj wrote

I love that your curious to learn more about the article but not curious enough to actually click on it.

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quantumfucker t1_j7b8x79 wrote

It was closer to the start. CTRL+F should take you to the exact location.

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