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NASA and AI Testing

Posted by Hemos on from the check-out-the-neat-stuff dept.

NapalmCheese writes "NASA tested their AI (Remote Agent) in space last May and it passed with flying colors. The articles makes it sound like HAL, I don't know if that is a good thing, but definately cool. The first article is found at The JPL and is nice and informative, the second article found at, rax is even more so. Hmmmm, if only it had a big red eye. "

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  1. Re:Drop the Space station, fund this kind of stuff by gavinhall · · Score: 5

    Posted by ionic:

    I disagree whole heartedly! I both think and feel that sending Man into Space is paramount; I mean think about it this way Earth is the only stomping ground of our civilization, if Earth goes we go. Therefore, the more that we push sending Man into Space and more directly seeding Mankind on the Moon, and planets like Mars ensures that should something happen to one locale in Space then at least something of Mankind would survive. The problem today is that the "leaders" in governmentally pushed space exploration (the USA) cannot get its populace behind spending more money on manned or any other type of Space exploration. Think about it, how long did it take to get the Space station in place, and we continue to sit on our "asses" looking at the moon, Mars and the asteroid belt, dreaming about them and doing nothing to bring them to reality (don't get me wrong there are some porojects whish are aimed at this but they are few and far between). If you want to talk about economics well, my guess is that there are plenty of precious resources within the asteroids which are waiting to be mined even as we jabber about the econonic feasibility of Space ventures (be it govermentally or privately funded). To get back to my major point a whole lot of us need to awaken to the fact that if there is a push in the direction of Space it will sprout new industries to support itself thereby rendering the enconomic issue a moot point. And as a side benefit of making local Space no longer a frontier we spread the seeds of Mankind onto multiple types os soil where it can both grow and wither, but we get out there.

    Mike Hay

  2. SI vs. AI? by Hrunting · · Score: 3

    The JPL article refers to the technology as "Synthetic Intelligence", not "Artificial Intelligence", highlighting a key idea. This "intelligence" was built, programmed, what have you. Basically, what they have is a complex program that can diagnose problems correctly. I think when the machine can accurately detect that the "false errors" it was receiving were truly false and can thus operate outside its bounds, we can call it AI.

    Of course, that doesn't diminish its importance. If only we could get this sort of self-diagnostic power into our Linux and MS boxes.