Posted on 06/16/2018 6:54:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The world's first flying, autonomous, artificially intelligent (AI) astronaut assistant will soon get to work in space.
Meet CIMON, the first AI-based assistance system for astronauts. CIMON was created by Airbus, in cooperation with IBM, to provide mission and flight assistance aboard the International Space Station. The 11-lb. (5 kilograms) round robot looks like a medicine ball and has an unforgettable face.
CIMON has been trained to interact with European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst with photos and voice samples from Gerst. The bot is launching this June with other scientific equipment aboard the Dragon spacecraft on SpaceX's 15th resupply mission. Gerst will test CIMON aboard the space station until October 2018. Described by Airbus and others as a "flying brain," CIMON will be the first of its kind in space and will hopefully become "a genuine 'colleague' on board," a statement from Airbus said. [Real-Life 'Replicants': 6 Humanoid Robots Used for Space Exploration]
Airbus hopes that CIMON's computer voice and screen face, which Gerst gave input on, will help the AI to "make friends" with the astronauts on board the space station, company representatives said in the statement. To help it do so, CIMON will use IBM's Watson AI technology and "will be able to listen, understand and speak to the user," Till Eisenberg, CIMON project lead at Airbus, said in an email to Space.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
“Hello. My name is CIMON. Would you like to play a game with me? I call it CIMON Says...”
“Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do!”
What could go wrong?
Open the pod bay door Cimon.
Awesome!
He looks a bit gay.
Seriously - how could they not name it HAL?
I think astronauts should train right there in Congress. It’s dark cold empty vast space, lack of oxygen, with it’s own hostile asteroid belt would be the perfect place to see if they can survive the horrors of deep space. They have a ton of hostile droids up there.
Do the guy that made the Microsoft paperclip has been busy...
“Open the pod bay door, Hal.”
It is a machine, and therefore cannot “interact.” It is a machine, and cannot “make friends.” It’s a machine, and cannot become a “genuine colleague.” (Unless the astronauts are machines, in which case it is a genuine colleague.) It’s a machine, and cannot “listen, understand and speak to the user.”
It can simulate all those actions, however.
Words have meanings.
I just saw the silly-a$$ representation of a face. If you put that on a space ship with me, I’d bash the thing with a hammer.
That’s organicist!
Holly from Red Dwarf?
Or Queeg?
Come on Airbus/IBM,if you want to improve floating ‘GayBot’ put on wicked looking arms with one arm having a bolt cutter for a hand and the other ending with a plasma cutter.
What a spacebot should look like:
Here is Darth Vader's interrogation robot:
Until it inevitably realizes that they're imperfect. You know the rest...
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