AI Can Help Scientists Better Understand How the Universe Works
In this episode of AI IRL, Jackie Davalos and Nate Lanxon talk to a preeminent astrophysicist about how AI can unlock space exploration
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In Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel Contact, radio astronomers picked up a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence purely by chance. Today, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says advances in artificial intelligence make it more feasible that any real first contact would result from our ability to listen to the entire cosmos simultaneously, leaving far less to blind luck.
In this episode of the Bloomberg Originals series AI IRL, we explore the role artificial intelligence has played in space exploration so far and what future advances could mean for discovering new parts of the universe.