SETI has leveraged machine learning to find 72 new fast radio bursts. FRBs are an astronomical phenomenon we don't know the cause of. They are hard to spot because they are transient (with one notable exception).
We have absolutely no idea what causes them, hence SETI's interest, but the real key here is the heavy use of artificial intelligence to make observations humans are simply too slow to handle...and the more FRBs we find, the faster we will work out what they actually are.
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