SETI reloaded, Next Generation Radio Telescopes, Transients and Cognitive Computing
Michael A. Garrett

TL;DR
This paper discusses the future prospects of SETI using next-generation radio telescopes like the SKA, emphasizing the importance of advanced data analytics and transient detection despite the low probability of success.
Contribution
It highlights how upcoming radio telescope capabilities and cognitive computing can enhance SETI efforts and transient detection, despite the low likelihood of detecting extraterrestrial signals.
Findings
Increased telescope sensitivity improves SETI observation potential.
Transient phenomena like FRBs are unlikely to be extraterrestrial signals.
Advanced data analytics are essential for future SETI discoveries.
Abstract
The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using radio telescopes is an area of research that is now more than 50 years old. Thus far, both targeted and wide-area surveys have yet to detect artificial signals from intelligent civilisations. In this paper, I argue that the incidence of co-existing intelligent and communicating civilisations is probably small in the Milky Way. While this makes successful SETI searches a very difficult pursuit indeed, the huge impact of even a single detection requires us to continue the search. A substantial increase in the overall performance of radio telescopes (and in particular future wide-field instruments such as the Square Kilometre Array, SKA), provide renewed optimism in the field. Evidence for this is already to be seen in the success of SETI researchers in acquiring observations on some of the world's most sensitive radio telescope…
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