Well I'm glad someone else was realistic (cynical?) enough to say it.
Even given the lack of information of the conditions under which such a competition may be held, this is unfeasible in so many ways.
The lack of details, the writing style, and the fact that the second button on their menu bar reads "Market Opportunity" all had my bulls**t detectors ringing loudly.
The only thing AI-Andi is ever likely to achieve is extracting money from gullible rich people
The Drake Equation is merely an attempt to break up an extremely difficult question - "how many communicating civilizations are there in our galaxy" - into more manageable parts. By focussing on each individual probability and attempting to improve limits on those we can improve the reliability of their product.
I don't think Frank Drake, or any serious-minded person who quotes this equation would fail to acknowledge that most of the probabilities are unknown at this stage. That's no reason not to make educated guesses...
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Well I'm glad someone else was realistic (cynical?) enough to say it.
Even given the lack of information of the conditions under which such a competition may be held, this is unfeasible in so many ways.
The lack of details, the writing style, and the fact that the second button on their menu bar reads "Market Opportunity" all had my bulls**t detectors ringing loudly.
The only thing AI-Andi is ever likely to achieve is extracting money from gullible rich people
The Drake Equation is merely an attempt to break up an extremely difficult question - "how many communicating civilizations are there in our galaxy" - into more manageable parts. By focussing on each individual probability and attempting to improve limits on those we can improve the reliability of their product.
I don't think Frank Drake, or any serious-minded person who quotes this equation would fail to acknowledge that most of the probabilities are unknown at this stage. That's no reason not to make educated guesses...