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Who could really use some artificial intelligence company?
It is easy to think of a million cases of use for LLMS here on Earth, but some recent research shows that AI can be unique in space.
After all, astronauts are in an unknown environment. They are like fish out of the water, and is also quite isolated in the endless area of deep space.
Thus, scientists work in some technologies to help astronauts in various ways, as they explore what is beyond the limits of the Earth’s atmosphere.
The context
You may or may not be aware that an initial launch of Artemis in 2022 had to pave the way for a manned mission to the moon this year.
However, this has been quite pushed, with a landing now scheduled for mid -2027. We will probably head to Mars in the next decade. Thus, Alex Karim El Adl and Mit Media Lab researchers work on a computer interface (BCI) that astronauts can use to communicate more easily while being far from their land homes.
Addressing challenges
“We can’t just go in space,” El Adl said in a recent presentation, showing how astronauts will be limited to small habitats. He gave some reasons for this, including radiation exposure and other atmospheric issues. He also suggested that astronauts will be able to benefit from the AI systems that support their cognitive status. These systems, he said, could be constructed and maintained.
“(BCI) uses spectroscopy near infrared as well as electrons to measure blood flow to your brain, as well as electrical signals, and on this basis, can determine your cognitive condition and using this, we are able To shape the environment to support astronaut performance, “he said.
The same systems also apply to many extreme applications critical to Earth Security, such as supporting air traffic controllers and health care.
Augmented Reality Gear, El Adl added, will help astronauts be able to help robots in collaborative duties. (Look for more from MIT here.)
A trip to the ISS
Meanwhile, crews work in this future moon landing that follows the first attempts about half a century ago. But we must also consider that there are closest goals such as rescue Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, which are apparently stuck in the international space station after delays on a space trip there. Williams is reportedly forgetting how to walk and change the lifestyle of astronauts is some analysts, as their timetable expands.
“It was last June that Nasa Barry Astronauts” Butch “Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams traveled in space for a mission that had to last for eight days only” Brenna Cooper writes in the Bible. “However, technical issues were discovered with the spacecraft that brought them to the International Space Station and it was decided that the boat should not be used for their return trip. What was intended to be a eight -day mission is coming in eight months now and the couple does not She is scheduled to return until March.
In short, it looks like those responsible for the space program to have cut off their work for them. But it makes sense that the AI will be able to help, in part by the exchange of information with human astronauts and helping them to tour a place where, some argue, people were never intended to be. Others would say that we have always had the intention of exploring these huge areas – and new technologies will help a lot.