Is AI Helping Us in Finding Aliens?

What we’ll cover today:

👽 Is AI Going to Find Aliens?

🌍 Energy-hungry AI is eating the planet.

🧠 Alex Hormozi’s take on AI 

🔗 The Event Roundup

Is AI Going to Find Aliens? 

AI could be the game-changer in the search for extraterrestrial life.

The hunt is getting exciting!

Here’s what’s happening:

• New telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array and Vera Rubin Observatory are scanning the skies.

• AI will sift through all that data to find signs of alien civilisations.

• We’re not just waiting for aliens to contact us any more.

• Now, we’re searching for accidental signals—alien radar, TV shows, or other tech noise.

This week, scientists are meeting at a major conference in Oxford to explore how AI will supercharge the search.

Here’s the whole article

1. Anthropic’s New CPO on Claude and the Future of AI

Anthropic’s Mike Krieger, the brains behind “Claude,” is on a mission to build AI products that actually live up to the hype!

“Right now, we’re seeing a bunch of chatbots and you can make the chatbot fire off a bunch of copyrighted information, but there’s going to come a turn when that goes away because the product will be so good and so useful that people we’ll think it has been worth it.” - Mike 

Here’s the full read

2. OpenAI is Raising Enormous Funds on a $150B Valuation.

OpenAI is gearing up for a big leap—raising funds at a massive $150 billion valuation, up from $86 billion earlier this year.

They’re also talking with banks about a $5 billion debt raise through a revolving credit facility. Of course, the details are still in flux, and OpenAI is staying tight-lipped about the whole thing.

Here’s the full article

1. OpenAI Unveils New AI Models with Game-Changing 'Reasoning' Powers

OpenAI’s secret project, code-named "Strawberry," led to the launch of two new AI models: o1 and o1-mini. The company claims these models can "reason and think much like a person."

2. This New Tech Helps AI Get in Touch with Its Feelings—And Yours Too!

Hume AI, a New York startup, just launched a new “empathic voice interface” on September 11.

“We're creating voices that sound like real people, not the typical AI assistant stereotypes,” says cofounder Alan Cowen.

3. Fraud Attempts on Biometric Systems Using AI

Researchers are tackling advanced fraud attempts on biometric systems using AI, including sneaky "morph attacks."

Germany’s Silicon Valley, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, has just released a paper on training algorithms to catch these morphing tricks with Morphing Attack Detection (MAD).