Airbus to Send a “Flying Brain” to Space
Meg Butler July 05, 2018
Good news everyone, the future is here.
Aeronautics company Airbus has reported its successful launch of an AI assistant called CIMON into space. It is currently on schedule to arrive on the International Space Station where it will help “aid astronauts with their everyday tasks on the ISS.”
It is also designed to do much more than that. This free-flying AI will be constantly “understanding, reasoning and learning” and will interact and speak with the crew as if it were another crew mate.
One of its initial learning exercises will reportedly involve a Rubik’s Cube.
Unless you have watched very little science fiction, (or too much and are appropriately nervous about its future) this is pretty exciting stuff.
To read more about space’s new floating brain, head to Airbus.com.
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