Mars Rover Receives AI, Thinks for Itself

[exfileme]

Opportunity gets a dose of the "Smarts."

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[burnley14]

That's really cool. And a 6-year lifespan on Mars' surface? Equally impressive.

 

[sliem]

Yes impressive. How long do they expect it to live?

 

[jennyh]

After 6 years alone on a lifeless rock, it would probably decide it wants to come home.

 

[Parsian]

this program is the best example why human space mission for exploration is utter waste of resources... I am not against human space missions, but a lot scientific analysis can be done without the involvement of human

 

[Lan]

They only expected it to live around around 6 months to a year I believe. I watched a show on it that was pretty cool actually.

 

[jossrik]

I think it was only supposed to last a few months if I remember correctly.

 

[shadow187]

I'm sorry, but I just watched the terminator series last week.

Skynet :

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]jennyh[/nom]After 6 years alone on a lifeless rock, it would probably decide it wants to come home.[/citation]

Like in this comic made by Randall Monroe?

 

[maestintaolius]

I would just like to go on the record as saying: I, for one, welcome our future robot overlords.

 

[footsoldier]

Maybe the reason it can last so long is some aliens recharging its battery n fixing it!

 

[Guest]

I'd hate mars too..

http/www.theonion.com/articles/mars-rover-beginning-to-hate-mars,2072/

 

[Guest]

"I have to sit here computing pi all day because Joker plugged in the overlord!"

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]footsoldier[/nom]Maybe the reason it can last so long is some aliens recharging its battery n fixing it![/citation]
Or solar panels

 

[kingnoobe]

Ya, but can it play crisis yet.

 

[climber]

JPL expected three months, hoped for a little over six months, the got a bigger bang for their buck than they expected. See, the program cost around $780 million, I think, at the time they were lauched, but they didn't do, "cheaper, quicker, faster", they did it right, dual rovers, in case one failed, put in lots of technology that allowed them to utilized the tech a decade past the launch date even though they never expected them to last that long, even in their wildest dreams.

 

[Shadow703793]

More impressive is the actual hardware (CPU,RAM,etc) on that thing is probably lower than a PIII 500Mhz and yet, they manage to cram so much functionality in to it. Efficient coding any one?

 

[victomofreality]

we give it ai and run it till we think it dies then get up there 20 years later and it's built a little city lol.

I think this is a great idea in all seriousness. Anything we can do to increase our knowledge of the universe around us but we will need manned missions eventually there are some things we just can't do with robots.

 

[albion000]

well, good luck doing that from Mars.

 

[failboat]

PETA disapproves of robots living on mars.