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Wow, this seems really exciting. This could be huge! Narrator: It wasn't.

• dustfinger 8y ago
  It is exciting because we can't explain it yet. That makes it interesting and worthy of study. >> This could be huge! Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the humor and understand how the media tends to over hype any news that could potentially excite people interested in the discovery of little green men, but I never felt that this particular article was doing that.
  • moneil971 8y ago
    Ok, but the point isn't little green men -- it's that SETI is now using AI and a convolutional neural network. Not that AI and ML isn't also a victim of media hype...
  • fishtoaster 8y ago
    I felt like this particular article was almost bizarrely moderate in its tone. It managed to talk about ML and a new seti discovery in a balanced manner, discussing both the optimistic and realistic takes. I guess I'm just so used to modern headline writing that I'm pleasantly surprised when someone doesn't publish "Artificial Intelligence finds aliens." :)