Everybody panic! No, don't panic. This version of "SkyNet" isn't slated to be given artificial intelligence anytime soon. Instead, it'll be taking over some of the grunt work of processing the radio astronomy data deluge to come.
With the advent of bigger and better interferometers, or sets of many telescopes working in tandem, astronomers have a lot more data to explore and calibrate in order to advance the state of the science.
Beautifully engineered and crafted telescopes like the newly minted Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) and the soon-to-be-online Atacama Large Millimeter Array are poised to produce stunning datasets that will allow us to probe the universe more deeply and fully and with better fidelity.
Read More: http://news.discovery.com/space/theskynet-is-awake-110915.html
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