High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.
High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space.
www.caltech.edu
Exploring Space with AI
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Think of all the astronomers he put out of work. :(
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/s, right?
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Yeah. It's disheartening when obvious jokes like that are missed by so many.
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It's a little too plausible, heh.
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This isn't exactly the type of work tons of astronomers are doing, nor does it cut into their jobs. Astronomers have already been using ML/algorithms/machine vision/similar stuff like this for this kind of work for years.
Besides, whenever a system identifies objects like this, they still need to be confirmed. This kind of thing just means telescope time is more efficient and it leaves more time for the kinds of projects that normally don't get much telescope time.
Also, space is big. 150k possible objects is NOTHING.
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