I remember Angela Collier talking about this topic, but basically: the “AI” in question is a different beast from the “AI” in chatbots and image generators. The underlying tech is the same (artificial neural networks), but instead of making the bot mimic human output, you’re asking it to point out stuff.
So for example, you feed it with two sets of data:
a bunch of pics of completely normal astronomical objects
a bunch of pics of anomalous astronomical objects
Then you “ask” the bot to assign new pictures (not present in either set) to one of those sets.
In my opinion it’s one of the best ways to use the new tech. If there’s a false positive, nobody is harmed — the researcher will simply investigate the pic, see there’s nothing worth noting there, say “dumb clanker”, and move on. Ideally you don’t want false negatives, but if they do happen, you’re missing things you’d already miss anyway — because there’s no way people would trial down all those pics by hand.
It also skips a few issues associated with chatbots and image generators, like:
since it’s “trained” for a specific purpose, it isn’t DDoSing sites for training “data”. It’s all from the telescope, AFAIK in the public domain.
no massive training = no massive water/energy cost.
Headline suggests that this is an observed fact, rather than the result of a simulation based on a model created by several EU scientists.
Furthermore the article asserts that “The observed motions … can only be properly explained with this “flat” mass distribution.” That premature assertion, based on this paper
It blows my mind that they were able to simulate the big bang well enough that running the simulation for a while resulted in stars in the same places as in present reality. That’s crazy.
It’s wild to think that literally every human being who ever lived—all our history, drama, and breakfast plans—is tucked away in that tiny blue sliver disappearing behind the moon. It’s the ultimate "blue marble" moment, but even surge credit card pre approval more lonely.
I mean in the grand scheme of things, all moons, planets, and even stars are doomed eventually. For a species with an average life expectancy of 80-some years, there ain’t much of a difference in 50 million and 5 billion years anyway.
YouTube educator, Cleo Abrams did a video on this as well as the actual options available to us to protect against asteroids, and found a new asteroid on camera
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