In the movie WALL-E, the last Earthlings travel through the Kuiper Belt on board the starship Axiom. For 700 years, a fully automated crew of robots has cared for them now that Earth has become inhospitable. Running the ship’s operations is AUTO. AUTO is an artificial intelligence (AI) system working to keep humans away from Earth — forever.
Here at home, space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency are using AI to explore our solar system. This includes guiding rovers on Mars, preventing satellite collisions and training astronauts for spaceflight. But these AI systems are much more limited than their fictional counterparts.
Today’s AI is much more unpredictable and prone to mistakes than what you see in fiction, says Daniele Gammelli. At Stanford University in California, he studies how to integrate AI systems into robots that interact with their environment.
Anyone using ChatGPT has probably seen how it hallucina...
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