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Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, in part to analyze rocks to see whether the Red Planet was ever habitable (or inhabited). But now the robot has gone off script, picking out its own targets for analysis -- precisely as planned. Last year, NASA scientists uploaded a piece of software called Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) adapted from the older Opportunity rover. Curiosity can now scan each new location and use artificial intelligence to find promising targets for its ChemCam. Compared with the estimated 24% success rate of random aiming at picking out outcrops -- a prime target for investigation -- the current version of AEGIS lets the rover find them 94% of the time, researchers report.
"We're too lazy to tell it what to look for, so we just let it do its thing and present that as an achievement".
But seriously, interesting story.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Will it autonomously crash in a parked trailer ?
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Headline claimed that the 'success rate' is 94% Went to read the summary to find out what the 94% is all about but unfortunately it isn't saying much Any clue? SVP?
The fake AI bubble can't pop fast enough.
Original concept art for Curiosity
Number Five from Short Circuit
Things that make you go hmm...
It's like a parasite, still leaching off humans, but now doing whatever it wants.
If that was planned, then by definition it's not off script. If a music score says "imrovise" or a sc-fi script says "// technobabble here" then that's what was planned.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The latency in communication with the rover is so bad that this is the most sensible way to do it, really.
Has there ever been a project with a better cost to science ratio than the mars rover?
So, going off script was actually scripted.
Autonomous laser firing rover uses AI to choose target to be obliterated. I just hope it stays trapped on Mars.
I'm pretty surprised that NASA hasn't done this before. Sure, there are benefits to making the Mars rovers somewhat autonomous, but that could be just as beneficial or moreso for missions to the outer solar system. New Horizons spent about 16 hours in the Pluto system, with radio signals taking about 4.5 hours to reach the probe from Earth. The flyby required a lot of precision that was made more challenging by the communication latency. Giving some autonomy to probes sent to the outer solar system could both increase the amount of useful data they collect and increase the probability of being successful. No doubt, it's beneficial to do this for Mars rovers, but it seems like this could be even more useful for exploring the outer solar system.
Impressive software but the decision involved was taken by the humans that decided to upload the software that automates the rover's motion to move it to places which seem more interesting than others based on sensor inputs.
some pr landscaping & we'll be praying again? cease fire stand down.. sing along.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-hmypa3wuA .. bet early & often don't get shut out.. creation is self cleaning & rechargeable..
I.e. the "AI" with no "I" in it. Before the demented AI hype, this was called "automation".
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
We now know who the Omnissiah really is. Glory to the Omnissiah !
We know how it ended. Now we know where /how it started.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
"Last year, NASA scientists uploaded a piece of software called Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) adapted from the older Opportunity rover."
AEGIS was the original Apollo OS; with the later implementation of Domain/OS, one could run SYS V, BSD, and AEGIS commands within the same Command Line by setting SYSTYPE as needed, which made Shell Scripting absolutely insane.
94% of the time...works everytime
...and that's when it decided to replicate itself."
That's what our grandkids will be telling their kids about the war between Mars and Earth.
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... when it starts to investigate its toes, and decides to eat the inbetweeners as a test.