{"id":158311,"date":"2023-02-17T04:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-is-using-ai-to-design-alien-looking-mission-hardware"},"modified":"2023-02-17T04:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:23:30","slug":"nasa-is-using-ai-to-design-alien-looking-mission-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/nasa-is-using-ai-to-design-alien-looking-mission-hardware","title":{"rendered":"NASA is using AI to design alien-looking mission hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-using-ai-to-design-alien-looking-mission-hardware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are only a month and a half into 2023 and it\u2019s already proving to be a breakout year for artificial intelligence. Following the early success of AI art generators like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97286-ai-art-generator-stable-diffusion-faces-another-copyright.html\">Stable Diffusion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97276-artists-launch-copyright-lawsuit-against-ai-art-generators.html\">Midjourney<\/a>, we are now seeing big tech get behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/97621-microsoft-gpt-powered-bing-chat-call-you-liar.html\">AI-powered chatbots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NASA, meanwhile, has been using AI to help it design bespoke hardware for a while now.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan McClelland, a research engineer with NASA, helped pioneer the agency\u2019s use of one-off parts using commercially available AI. The resulting hardware, which McClelland has dubbed \u201cevolved structures,\u201d looks a bit alien even by his own admission. \u201cBut once you see them in function, it really makes sense,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2023\/nasa-turns-to-ai-to-design-mission-hardware\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are only a month and a half into 2023 and it\u2019s already proving to be a breakout year for artificial intelligence. Following the early success of AI art generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, we are now seeing big tech get behind AI-powered chatbots. NASA, meanwhile, has been using AI to help it design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}