[VladRussian]

"The PTF survey uses a robotic telescope mounted on the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California to scan the sky nightly. As soon as the observations are taken, the data travels more than 400 miles to NERSC via the National Science Foundation’s High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network and DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). At NERSC, computers running machine learning algorithms in the Real-time Transient Detection Pipeline scan through the data and identify events to follow up on. Within hours of identifying PTF 11kly, this automated system sent the coordinates to telescopes around the world for follow-up observations."

can it look like a planet-wide intelligence to an outsider? :) . Interesting to compare to the origins of cybernetics :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener#During_and_after...

It seems to me that detect-track-target feedback-looped principle was one of key in the development of intelligence of animals and humans, and it seems to continue its work in developing the intelligence beyond that.