AI Solved the Fermi Paradox?

for decades all of humanity has been asking one of the most important questions for the entire universe are we alone today we will challenge the fmy Paradox by finally getting closer to the most anticipated answer the help of artificial intelligence through millions of images and hundreds of hours of observations of the vast Universe AI has already been able to detect extraterrestrial radio signals identify which planets May Harbor life with a stunning hypothesis about the history of life on Earth right now you'll find out how AI is opening up a crack in the mystery of extraterrestrial life whether we are really the first civilization on Earth it's no secret that the Drake equation is traditionally used to search for extraterrestrial life in general the formula consists of seven factors that are built on a clear and simple logic it takes into account the rate of formation of planetary systems that are conducive to the development of intelligent life the share of such systems in the Milky Way and the average duration of civilization which can be used to obtain the number of cultures that may exist in the Galaxy today so the Simplicity of this formula if all the members are present can give us the answer once and for all whether we are alone but this is where serious difficulties arise the main drawback of the formula is the absence of all its components at the moment except for the first one the rate of formation of stars with conditions suitable for the development of life which is r in particular the value of the period of existence of cultures L cannot be calculated due to the probable heterogenity of the alien Behavior therefore this Factor remains speculative as long as these gaps exist establishing a theoretical number for the approximate number of extraterrestrial civilizations will have to be postponed for a long time but what if there is a way out some of the crucial values of the equation FC fi FL L including L can be determined without even leaving the planet the process of the origin of life is incredibly complex for the development of an intelligent civilization like ours many conditions must coincide such as the availability of water in large quantities heat climate seasonal changes the presence of many building and nutrient chemical elements and so on therefore it is very difficult to search for extraterrestrial life a mismatch of at least one condition and the planet that can be included in the list of those where a living organism will never appear similarly on Earth life could have gone through several stages until it reached the level it is now in other words intelligent life could have existed long before humans until it disappeared under certain for example two difficult climatic conditions in 2018 two astrophysicist Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt wondered whether it would be possible to detect an industrial civilization using the geological history of the planet that is if a developed culture could have existed in the time of the dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago could there be any evidence of its existence we're not talking about buildings and statues they won't be left after a few million years but about chemical traces such as carbon accumulation Plastics radioactive elements or climactic and ecosystem changes this thought experiment is called the saluan hypothesis based on the aonomus intelligent species that created a civilization before humans in the Doctor Who series this hypothesis can not only turn the entire history of our planet and question the conditions for the development of life but it also guides us to an approximate solution to the Drake equation for example looking at the Extraterrestrial civilization from the point of view of their impact on the planet can change the approach to Future Planetary Exploration by specifying for scientists what they need to look for according to NASA we currently know of 9,820 exoplanets that are candidates for supporting life observation on these planets of nitrogen dioxide or chlorofluorocarbons as products of an industrial process may already indicate the existence of an advanced civilization in the past and the best part is that we can find this Trace right now as this compound can be detected by observing light falling on distant exoplanets along with various combinations of methane and oxygen in the atmosphere indicating at least the presence of simple life such traces as they relate to technological progress are called techn signatures created by the hands of civilization unlike various bio signatures which do not guarantee the presence of Life technos signatures cannot be confused with natural processes so focusing scientists attention on them can open up the secret world of extraterrestrial Civilizations for us much faster and more accurately typically scientists look for techn signatures that match our own technological footprint in outer space however according to Adam Frank aliens are not Magic because their hypothetical civilizations and scientific discoveries are also based on chemical and physical principles known to us for example back in the 1960s seti scientists came up with the idea of looking for unnatural radio signals in addition to usual bio signatures and pollutants which Remains the most common type of search and still unsuccessful communication with unknown invisible civilizations however this meth that has several serious difficulties the most important of which is radio signals on the Earth itself which can be reflected from space objects and mistakenly considered attempts by extraterrestrial life to find us but in addition to radio signals at this stage of our progress we can detect industrial gases in the atmosphere unusual thermal patterns and polluting particles as high energy neutrinos but gases in the atmosphere can also be the product of strange geological activity on the planet such as the Trace Amounts of industrial propane gas in the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton which you can learn about and possible traces of Life on our Channel however high energy neutrinos are much less common traces while ordinary neutrinos are the most abundant particles in the world high energy neutrinos which can hypothetically exceed the energy of ordinary neutrinos by a billion times s arise only from accelerators of particles of planken extremely tiny scale that are not yet available to humanity the detection of such neutrinos would hint at a significant level of progress of an alien civilization since such a collider would need an energy density that would allow it to withstand extremely strong electromagnetic fields and such a place is only located near a black hole even more seemingly visible traces of the presence of a highly developed culture in outer space are probable astrophysical structures and transportation but they are not easy to spot the most well-known Mega structure is the Dyson Sphere a hypothetical technology that orbits a star and captures its energy to meet the energy needs of extraterrestrial life if such a structure were located thousands of light years from earth scientists could track it by observing the eclipse of the star around which the sphere orbits however the Dyson Sphere can easily be confused with the natural phenomen on of old Stars fading due to the vast distance spacecraft and probes can also be difficult to identify by movement or strange signals is they can also be confused with ordinary space objects for example a very strange cigar-shaped Interstellar object UA mua discovered in 2017 caused a lot of discussion in the astronomical Community because it showed no signs of cometary or asteroid activity there was a version that UA mua was an Alien Probe but it was still classified as a comet therefore the search for techn signatures is an extremely difficult task that requires years of analysis observation and modeling just to roughly estimate what we're seeing but our development is just as rapid and does not stand still in the near future searching for signs of Life on thousands of planets simultaneously will become commonplace artificial intelligence will help us reach a new level of progress recently AI has begun to gain massive popularity both among ordinary users and in scientific circles astronomical research requires dozens of hours of careful analysis and comparison with previous results even for a single object the amount of data to observe just 820 Stars is 150 terabytes or 480 hours with the help of machine learning this demanding process can be significantly accelerated and according to the University of Toronto researcher Peter ma in combination with the next Generations of telescopes AI will help study and observe millions of stars not just a 100 the benefits of AI and quickly working with gigantic amounts of information extend the search for extraterrestrial life and 2023 under the direction of Peter ma an artificial algorithm analyzed 480 hours of data from the Greenbank telescope in West Virginia and found more than 20,500 signals similar to techno signals from this number scientists selected eight signals the Techno signatures while the rest of the array was made up of intercepted terrestrial radio signals despite the manual selection of the signals the scientist did not have have to spend almost a month evaluating what the telescope had recorded despite the Intriguing findings repeated listening to the signals yielded no results nevertheless even this first success already demonstrates that AI can now be used for data collection and that in the future after various trainings it will be able to bring clearer results the biggest challenge for SEI in fact is not even the huge amount of information but the difficulty and distinguishing between human and extraterrestrial signals although the first model trained by scientists has already made potentially breakthrough discoveries it is still unable to distinguish between those techn signals on its own currently scientists plan to use this AI model to analyze new information from telescopes and archival data in addition to searching for radio signals from intelligent life AI can also look for Bio signals and model their patterns to conclude that life exist on the planet recently scientist from Oxford University led by Dr Kimberly war and Roads trained an AI algorithm to classify bio signatures using the atakama and alap Plano deserts in South America and their aerial images in the end the model was able to detect bio signatures in 87.5% of cases one of the study participants Freddy kesis PhD in computer science believe that further testing of machine learning will be crucial for the future search for signs of life and building profitable routes for research on Earth analoges in particular Mars as well as the Intriguing moons of the solar systems gas giants Europa Enceladus and Titan moreover the researchers hope that AI will be able to analyze the mechanisms of Life development in planetary systems with extreme conditions such as Perpetual cold given the array of known data on on such planets in particular AI can help with less interesting but necessary work to advance what we know about space AI is able to systemize all the knowledge gain from observations of thousands of space objects AI can simultaneously examine several factors about a single object such as its surface composition terrain features and other objects that somehow affect the focus of the analysis presenting scientists with a complete picture of the object of study that would take months of hard work the imperfections of AI are rapidly decreasing due to constant and varied training confidently revealing its great potential for thoroughly exploring the entire visible universe and most importantly increasing the likelihood of finding extraterrestrial life but it also has a downside AI always has an answer as strange as it may sound AI is much faster than humans at seeing pattern and analyzing huge amounts of information without the special perception and manner of human work and based only on its training material the algorithm can give an answer that astronomers simply will not understand and will not be able to see the possible error for example astronomer Ingo Waldman trained an AI called Robert to distinguish between water that may look different in the atmospheres of other planets but it is not a fact that Robert understood what causes the changes in the molecular composition and pattern of water therefore AI will need to be very meticulously tuned but its time will come AI will also be able to not only confirm traces of extraterrestrial life since the search for technos signatures can be simplified by the ability of AI to analyze data sets through the known history of our planet it may be a little easier for machine Lear learning to find signs of a prehuman civilization that hypothetically existed on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago let's return to the saluan theory although it doesn't yet give any rough ideas of how prehuman Society could have developed we can already make some assumptions for example a certain type of intelligent mammal could have appeared 60 million years ago its civilization could have existed for only 100,000 years and disappeared due to some cataclysmic event returning intelligent life to the embryonic stage however it is impossible to provide any evidence for this idea millions of years for a civilization that is probably not as advanced as ours is absolute Oblivion even if there are fossils from that period they could have changed dramatically under the influence of the environment so according to the ciran hypothesis we can find evidence of an ancient civilization based on what people would have left behind AI will be able to help with this machine learning will be able to distinguish a tiny accumulation of industrial waste of a considerable age better than humans while modeling the approximate path of distribution of these ancient elements 56 million years ago the earth experienced the so-called paleocene eosine thermal maximum which resulted in 15 de fah rise in global temperatures with temperatures reaching 70° fah at the poles scientists also noticed an increase in the ratio of carbon to oxygen in the atmosphere during this period perhaps one of the reasons for this was the Industrial period of the previous civilization on the other hand the emissions could be just a consequence of periodic changes in the temperature background according to Adam Frank the RM did not have a dramatic enough change in the composition of the atmosphere through carbon emissions compared to the industrial era now so it could have been caused in part by natural processes however it is possible that such activities of the previous civilization could have been shortlived that is its impact on the Earth was there but due to its insignificance it will not be easy to confirm it on the other hand a hypothetical prehuman culture according to a study by the University of Rochester led by Frank and SMI left no traces of pollution like fossil fuels or Plastics although it is not known whether such techn signatures are common at least the fuel footprint could be more noticeable for a civilization with a hypothetically long history this fact makes leading scientists doubt the validity of their own hypothesis however the absence of evidence is not proof of absence says University of Pennsylvania astronomer Jason Wright in response to the saluan hypothesis the latest research into the geological history of the ancient Earth using AI May in the near future finally resolve the question of whether we are the first industrialized species on the planet in particular even if the hypothesis is not confirmed it will help scientists find some necessary elements of the Drake equation and perhaps one day inconspicuous trace of carbon on a distant exoplanet will solve the most intriguing question of mankind no matter how much Humanity tries to get closer to the answer to every mystery the universe will always keep its secrets to itself life is the same secret of the infinite Universe which will take hundreds of years for Humanity to conquer the new era of machine learning opens the way for us to solve so many questions about our world but even with its help Humanity will never be able to get every answer the age and spatial scales on which the cosmo exist will not be surpassed even by artificial intelligence however despite the inaccessibility of full understanding the universe is still amenable to study and understanding as curiosity alone drives our progress

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Length: 19min 21sec (1161 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2023