Peter Ma on Using AI to Find Promising Signals for Alien Life - Ep. 191

Peter Ma was bored in his high school computer science class. So he decided to teach himself something new: how to use artificial intelligence to find alien life.

That’s how he eventually became the lead author of a groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomy.

The study reveals how Ma and his co-authors used AI to analyze a massive dataset of radio signals collected by the SETI Breakthrough Listen project.

They found eight signals that might just be technosignatures, or signs …

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