The debut of a new ISS AI robot ‘crew member’ went exactly how you’d think
‘I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.’
By Chaim Gartenberg@cgartenberg Dec 2, 2018, 10:00am EST
Earlier this year, the International Space Station got a new “crew member†of sorts: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), an interactive AI assistant that can float around the station and help answer astronauts’ questions — kind of like a specialized spaceflight cross between Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Clippy.
But CIMON’s debut — seen in a new video release by the European Space Agency — shows an early interaction with the space robot is going, well, exactly the way that every single science fiction movie has prepared you to think it will, via Gizmodo.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/12/2/18119889/cimon-iss-ai-robot-crew-member-video-hal-9000-esa-space
