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IBM's Watson Is Going To Space (thenextweb.com)
Yesterday, IBM announced it would be providing the AI brain for a robot being built by Airbus to accompany astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). "The robot, which looks like a flying volleyball with a low-resolution face, is being deployed with Germany astronaut Alexander Gerst in June for a six month mission," reports The Next Web. "It's called CIMON, an acronym for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, and it's headed to space to do science stuff." From the report: It'll help crew members conduct medical experiments, study crystals, and play with a Rubix cube. Best of all, just like "Wilson," the other volleyball with a face and Tom Hanks' costar in the movie Castaway, CIMON can be the astronauts' friend. According to an IBM blog post: "CIMON's digital face, voice and use of artificial intelligence make it a 'colleague' to the crew members. This collegial 'working relationship' facilitates how astronauts work through their prescribed checklists of experiments, now entering into a genuine dialogue with their interactive assistant."
...don't hook it up to the pod bay doors.
I -1 = H
B -1 = A
M -1 = L
"Open the pod bay doors, CIMON."
English is not my first language, so cut me some slack -: Om du kan lasa det har sa kan du Svenska
Perfectly predictable what most responses will be about!
Agreed. They should have used "CIMON: your plastic pal who's fun to be with".
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This is really impressive. I was wrong about AI. If NASA thinks it is ready for the ISS, then it must be useful. They wouldn't put something up there for just marketing purposes. After all: this is NASA. The same people who brought us the EMDrive.
I was more thinking of the "Clippy of Windows 3.1", the Watson that tried to make Windows errors worse.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Large computers in spacecraft will become necessary once you're far enough from Earth that latency over a comm link would be a problem. Though this is obviously not the case on ISS, this test will characterize any special problems that might arise in just running one of these things in microgravity, such as heat dissipation.
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At least the astronauts can now play soccer.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Volleyball shaped, with a simple face?
How is this NOT named Wilson?
-Styopa
"...this one has a cute face and chats. That seems rather useless as well as potentially getting in the way of people as they attempt to move around..."
Which accurately describes a fair share of my co-workers already...but you can't turn them off, or stuff them in the closet.
Watson is more of a marketing ploy then actually a useful implementation of technology.
H&R Block uses Watson, and still when my Taxes have gone beyond what you can fill out on the EZ form. The Tax accountant needed to do a lot of additional work, and had to bring in her supervisor for additional assistance. All I really got was a spinning icon like in the old browsers, to show me that it is doing something.
What I wax expecting Watson to do, is analysis all the other clams before it. Find additional statistical actions that have been done, and offer additional things to recommend. With a spouse in real-estate you had these deductions, however other had also added these to their list, do they apply? It looks like you are missing a 1099-DIV form, If you didn't invest, comparing to others what would the expected value be.
I have seen Watson used in other areas too and I am not impressed. I haven't seen it do anything sense it Jeopardy game that is really noteworthy. And still what it did in Jeopardy was more of a result of fast indexing of data, and quick correlation algorithm, vs anything ground breaking, in many of these sectors it is trying to get in, such raw power isn't so much needed.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
One of Cimon’s greatest exploits was his destruction of a Persian fleet and army at the Battle of the Eurymedon river in 466 BC.
Is this really the android we want to be sharing the confined space of a space station with.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is the primary manufacturer and supplier of androids, robots and autonomic assistants for the known universe. They are known for their catchy jingles and catchphrases, supplied by their Marketing Department.
They are not, however, known for the quality of their products.
Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors, to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units" -- Everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.
The company motto is; "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesized drinks to the company of a robot, or 'Your plastic pal who's fun to be with' as it is described by the aforementioned Marketing Department. It should be noted that many who do not Enjoy, then go on to fail to Share, unless this includes sharing strongly-worded opinions toward their complaints department.
The Hitchhiker's Travel Guide describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which conveniently fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as:
"A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."
Only their complaints department survived the general economic implosion of the company as a whole.
"It's called CIMON, an acronym for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, and it's headed to space to do science stuff."
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looks like it spells CIMC to me. If they really wanted it to have a name out of an acrony why not CARLIE for Crew Autonomous Robotic Lifelike Interactive Entity?
"I'm all for robots, but only if they do something, this one has a cute face and chats"
But astronauts have to listen to the cue words when being ordered to do stuff the robot wants: "Cimon says..." :-)
It's just not the same without the jingle...
I'm pretty sure computers have been used in space for a while now. This is just nothing more than a bit of paid advertising from IBM.
You know, the volleyball-shaped AI droid from Portal 2? I can't say I'd parallel CIMON with Wilson, a rudimentary game ball.
.... or stuff them in the closet.
Well, not without HR getting on you about it not being professional....
This is just nothing more than a bit of paid advertising from IBM.
IBM provided the hardware and software for the avionics on the Space Shuttle . . . programmed in . . . IBM /360 Assembler! They chose that language because it had been around for long enough that NASA figured that all the bugs had been worked out, and the programmers understood the language well enough that it could be used for man-rated systems:
https://history.nasa.gov/compu...
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
So are most of the biggest airline reservation systems in the world, it's called TPF. What's your point?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
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Gerty was an AI Robot with a face much like this volleyball one that served to assist the human responsible maintaining He3 mining on the Moon the in the 2009 film Moon.
This is not embedded flight control hardware, but an advanced general-purpose machine. The basic mission of ISS is to characterize the response of people and their things to microgravity, radiation and other aspects of the long-term spacecraft environment.