Comments on: Enhanced AI: The Key to Unmanned Space Exploration https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration Safeguarding Humanity Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: GaryChurch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-140789 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:27:57 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-140789 “I don’t think a retired coastguard with no background in AI is in a position to voice authority on what constitutes AI and what does not.”

You are a jackass

]]> By: Tom Kerwick https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-140564 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:26:05 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-140564 “I do not think what Kerwick is citing as “AI” qualifies as such.”

Gary- any machine with a learning capability constitutes AI- it doesn’t have to look like C-3PO. Adaptive control systems can have AI- a simple prolog script can have AI. I don’t think a retired coastguard with no background in AI is in a position to voice authority on what constitutes AI and what does not. NASA are doing great work with the unmanned missions. It amazes me on how far they have progressed, and I would hope to see them augment future missions with more and more enhanced AI as they progress in this field.

I wouldn’t agree with you either on sending manned missions to new worlds without first checking out the terrain with explorers, though that’s just a matter of opinion — and risk.

]]> By: Gary Michael Church https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-140327 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:09:10 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-140327 “Sending an automated system to prep a site for human habitation would serve the survival of humanity in all of these locations.”

True, but sending a manned mission to establish a site would serve better.
I do not think what Kerwick is citing as “AI” qualifies as such.

]]> By: JohnHunt https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-138627 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:45:14 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-138627 There is an interesting line of reasoning that goes like this…One increasingly likely explanation for Fermi’s Paradox is that intelligent civilizations routinely destroys itself via its own technology before said civilization can establish a self-sustaining colony far enough away from that technology. But a self-sustaining lunar or Martian colony is conceivably within reach within just a few decades. What technology would not only destroy the home planet but other planet in the solar system. And, if this were to be the case, then just how far out is safe enough? Another star system, the Oort cloud, or perhaps the outer solar system is far enough. Sending an automated system to prep a site for human habitation would serve the survival of humanity in all of these locations.

I would like to suggest that you all Google: “ALPH automated Mars”.

]]> By: Tom Kerwick https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-138608 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:10:44 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-138608 “Explain what this has to do with the Lifeboat mission please.”

Space exploration/colonization is often discussed on Lifeboat — unmanned space exploration a precursor to this — and the subjects of AI and engineering also relevant.

]]> By: GaryChurch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/08/enhanced-ai-the-key-to-unmanned-space-exploration#comment-138606 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:03:38 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=4592#comment-138606 Explain what this has to do with the Lifeboat mission please.

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