SETI neural networks spot dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy

The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge datasets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit. 72 new "fast radio bursts" from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away were discovered in previously-analyzed data by using a custom machine learning model. https://ift.tt/2N8sj0Q Devin Coldewey September 10, 2018 at 08:58PM