AI Will Help Us Find Aliens — Here’s How
Last Updated on July 19, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Raj Shroff
Originally published on Towards AI.
If there is intelligent alien life, it will be AI that finds it. For better or for worse.

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“Look at that thing, dude!”
— US Navy pilot after spotting a UFO traveling unbelievably fast
In April 2020, the US Department of Defense declassified three UFO videos taken by Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. What was interesting was how fast the UFOs were traveling. We clearly hear how shocked the navy pilots were in the video — and they know a thing or two about flying fast.
We still haven’t figured out what those flying objects were. Still, even hardened skeptics that watched the video would have asked themselves “what if…”
We are most likely not alone…. Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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