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Efosa Udinmwen

'I'm sorry Dave': NASA is working on an AI chip to help next-generation spacecraft think for themselves — so clearly they haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey

NASA high-performance spaceflight computing processor.
  • NASA developed autonomous spacecraft processors with dramatically higher computing performance levels
  • New radiation-hardened chip delivers hundreds of times greater processing capability
  • Deep-space communication delays are driving demand for autonomous onboard decision systems

A famous warning about autonomous machines from the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey appears to have faded from NASA's memory, if it was ever taken seriously at all.

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