I have an idea for the future development of artificial intelligence.
I would like to propose a project called MARS-001 — a system in which artificial intelligence helps scientists send radio signals to Mars and receive possible responses.
AI could help with:
Creating and encoding messages.
Calculating signal transmission times.
Analyzing received radio signals.
Supporting scientists in space exploration.
Perhaps, in the future, this project could bring artificial intelligence and space exploration together.
“Possible responses”? The only alien life on Mars to communicate with is artificial, and it came from Earth.
There’s a product that can answer advanced questions now, called ChatGPT. It might explain that beyond sending signals, sending space vehicles to communicate with is a problem that has been largely solved - when you have resources the size of a government for the implementation.
The Earth rotates under the celestial sky, meaning the observer-based range and rate of distance change to planets are dynamic, and they are observable from a ground station only a minority of the time for signals and remote sensing. Additionally, duplex transmission to orbiters and landers requires large antennas that can track at the required slew rate.
Here’s the Deep Space Network antenna currently receiving downlink from Mars at this very moment, under construction, if you need some ideas about the engineering beyond questions “where is Mars”:
There’s more questions to be answered by advanced language models, which could include signals research, but AI already has emergent capabilities for a wide variety of use cases without needing special development. So “MARS-001” is likely already you chatting with ChatGPT.
