How Astronomers Are Using AI to Finally Find ET

Artificial intelligence isn’t just taking jobs from artists, screenwriters, journalists and office workers. It’s coming for astronomers, too—in particular, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.

However, as with other jobs, experts warn that we surrender that work to AI at our peril. “Nothing can compete with our insatiable human curiosity and imagination,” Ross Davis, a specialist in information and communication sciences at Indiana University, told The Daily Beast.

The threat that self-improving AI chatbots such as ChatGPT poses to screenwriters was a driving factor in the Writers Guild of America’s six-month strike, which ended last week with major concessions from Hollywood studios.

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