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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.
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?
Original concept art for Curiosity
Number Five from Short Circuit
Things that make you go hmm...
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."
Will it autonomously crash in a parked trailer ?
That's why you run such a prototype 390 million km from the nearest trailer.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Oblig XKCD :
https://xkcd.com/1504/
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