Pigs in Space - or how to find aliens with AI

I’ve always been interested in how the search for ET is done. From the old days of seti on the desktop to modern multi billion investments we’re spent a lot of time trying to break through the fermi paradox. Last year I was inspired by a researcher I met who showed my how AI can be used.

Can you find aliens? How would you go about the search and what would you look for?

With a real worked example in how to go about searching for aliens (really!) and some insights into how the professionals are using AI to seek for some sign from their extra terrestrial counter-parts this talk is about how AI techniques, tools, frameworks and data are getting closer to the point that non-experts (that’s me) can actually be dangerous. Learning about AI from the ground up is a challenge for newbies but things are improving. This session will show you how AI technologies are getting a little more pluggable and useable every day. We may not end up finding those spacefaring muppets but then the search is just beginning.