NASA is developing its own ChatGPT style interface for astronaut interaction. The AI ​​assistant is expected to be deployed on the Lunar Gateway space station, which will be part of the space agency’s Artemis mission.

The idea of ​​a spacecraft with its own personality may bring to mind the HAL 9000, the computer with human personality that controls most of the Discovery spaceship operations in the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. or Even with Cortana halo video game franchise. Until now, the artificial intelligence images used in space were only the invention of science fiction writers. This is becoming more and more real, thanks to the advances made by artificial intelligence over the past year, and NASA is writing its own reality using this technology.

An engineer who developed the technology for NASA, Dr. According to Larissa Suzuki, “the idea is to get to a point where we communicate with the spacecraft and they [] it also responds to the warnings and interesting discoveries they’ve seen in the solar system and beyond.” “It doesn’t feel like science fiction anymore,” he added.

According to the report Guard, Dr. Suzuki made these comments while speaking at a meeting of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in London last week. During his talk, he “outlined an interplanetary communications network with built-in artificial intelligence to detect and possibly fix glitches and inefficiencies as they arise.”

“It then warns mission operators that there is a possibility that packets transmitted from Spacecraft X may be lost or not delivered,” Suzuki said. “We can’t send an engineer into space every time a spacecraft shuts down or its software crashes.”

Gateway will be the first manned space station in lunar orbit and will support NASA’s deep space exploration plans. Ironically, the area where astronauts will live while on the space station is called the Housing and Logistics Post, also known as HALO.

The AI ​​system will also allow astronauts and mission control staff to have natural conversations with it, allowing astronauts to seek advice on space experiments or how best to perform complex maneuvers.

Along with his AI assistant, Dr. Suzuki is also working on how to apply machine learning in space. Being able to do this, he says, would allow a fleet of robotic Mars rovers to share information. This will allow the rovers to continue training without having to send an excessively large amount of data to Earth.

“The spacecraft is making joint updates based on what the other spacecraft has seen,” Suzuki said. “It’s a distributed learning technique – learning collaboratively…without putting all that data on the ground.”

The Gateway program is currently located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It is focused on providing comprehensive capabilities to support NASA’s Artemis campaign, which will eventually support continued deep space exploration and exploration, which will include docking ports for various spacecraft, space for crews to live and work, and on-board scientific research. Space habitats now seem to include artificial intelligence that once existed only in the imaginations of science fiction writers and fans. Source