NASA is working on developing a ChatGPT-like Chatbot for its astronauts to control their spacecraft
ChatGPT has taken over every facet of human activity on Earth and is now reaching its tentacles into space as well. Engineers at NASA are developing an AI assistant. It will likely be comparable to OpenAI ChatGPT. Surprisingly, it will allow astronauts to communicate with their spacecraft via voice instructions, akin to ChatGPT. It is exactly like in science fiction literature. This development in communication skills, for example, recalls the classic image of HAL 9000, the supercomputer in Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel “2001: A Space Odyssey” – it conversed with mission pilots on a spacecraft heading for Jupiter.
It will also not be confined to only sophisticated maneuvers. The ultimate objective is to create an autonomous system capable of managing payloads, data transfer, health monitoring, and other tasks.
According to The Guardian, the technology will allow users to have natural dialogues with the AI and solve problems by talking to it rather than sifting through pages of long instructions.
“The idea is to get to a point where we have conversational interactions with space vehicles, and they [are] also talking back to us on alerts, interesting findings they see in the solar system and beyond,” Dr. Larissa Suzuki said at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in London.
Dr. Suzuki, for example, envisioned an interplanetary communications network run by AI that can identify and correct any faults that arise.
“It then alerts mission operators that package transmissions from space vehicle X are likely to be lost or fail delivery,” she explained. “We can’t send an engineer up into space every time a spacecraft goes offline or its software fails somehow.”
NASA intends to install the technology on the Lunar Gateway. This projected space station will circle the moon and assist the Artemis Mission, which aims to establish a sustained human presence on the moon.
