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Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals
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While science fiction lore tells them that humans will meet extraterrestrial life in the form of little green men, the detail that should raise hairs this Halloween is this: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence took a major leap forward with AI, and it increasingly focuses on AI agents built by humans listening for AI agents built by aliens.
Key facts
- The system can handle 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, with inference running on premises, next to the instrument
- Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are bringing agentic AI into the daily search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Oliver chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and principal investigator of Breakthrough Listen
- At the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, agents can now steer the instrument, enhance and correct incoming data, and apply AI models to the incoming stream, all from a single natural
Summary
Some scientists have suggested that extraterrestrial civilizations, if they exist, could be billions of years older than humanity. Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are bringing agentic AI into the daily search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The result is a faster, more adaptable search for potential signals from extraterrestrial life and technologies. Oliver chair for SETI at the SETI Institute and principal investigator of Breakthrough Listen. Radio telescopes generate enormous volumes of data, creating a challenge for scientists who need to identify potentially interesting signals as observations unfold.