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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
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
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.
"Sorry Dave. CIMON didn't say."
"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?