Its german build, so maybe?
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Uncanny valley for sure…
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Yes. Perfect.
Given the reported, prevalent odor in the ISS (that being of the “boy’s gym locker room’ variety”), AI companions would be welcome.
Uhhh… the one with the USB port… I think.
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I’m waiting for TARS.
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At 5:21 CIMON asks to
be nice, please
and my heart just melted.
AND THEN:
(What’s more Disney than a mad scientist imprisoned in a robot carcass and condemned to a burning hell dimension populated only by the shambling cyborg zombie corpses of the crew he lobotomized? The answer is none. None more Disney.)
/tangent
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I’m not surprised to see Watson pop up in another mediagenic stunt; but I’m really not seeing the point here.
The ISS has used lightly modified(for thermal and electrical compatibility) laptops for years; it’s not far out enough to require anything terribly exotic and rad hard; and unless there have been upgrades since then it has a 300mb down/ 25mb up link with mission control; which the Airbus press release says had a .4 second delay to/from the datacenter where the Watson stuff was happening. 800 millisecond ping kind of sucks; but not nearly enough to be technologically exotic.
So, aside from a coating of ‘in space!’ we basically learned that, yes, a cloud-connected surveillance puck can do speech to text well enough to answer questions.
I’m sure there were excellent reasons why it took a joint Swiss/German research team, an aerospace contractor, IBM; and some ISS mission time to demonstrate that; rather than, say, your choice of consumer electronics surveillance pucks and a lousy DSL connection. Or, if your grantwriting hasn’t been going so well lately; just your cellphone somewhere on campus where the signal is mediocre, to reduce hardware costs.
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I don’t think we can safely dismiss the possibility of Watson having a prurient and somewhat fetishistic interest in humans. The below is an actual Watson ad IBM actually paid to have run; and its vision of a closer reflection of ‘who we really are’ is a trifle less straightlaced(except the posture collar, it looks pretty straightlaced) than I would have expected from a notoriously staid tech company.
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What your AI is packaged in does matter.
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Maybe the goal is to increase the level of AI assistance over time, especially with projects including more civilians in space. If so, it’s better to have Watson than Alexa.
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Came looking for the inevitable ‘Companion Cube*’ from Portal references, leaving satisfied.
(Yes, pedants; I know people posted personality core spheres… it’s still close enough)
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I bet if they get real clever, they’ll find a way to fuck it.
