The last addition At the Tiangong space station in China is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AI – After the protagonist of “Singe King” legend In Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong – The chatbot was introduced to the space station in mid -July, and Almedy finished its first mission: supporting three Taikonauts for in Spacewalk.
Information on Wukong AI remains limited. Chinese authorities said they had developed it from an open-source servant to models; According to Xinhua, the China’s public news agency, the engineers designed it to meet the requirements of the inhabited space mission and concentrated its knowledge base on aerospace flight data.
“This system can provide rapid and effective information support for complex operations and manipulation of defects by crew members, improving work efficiency, psychological support in orbit and space coordination and land teams”, Zou Pengfei of Taikonaut Training Center, Said to Xinhua.
The technicians connected the AI to Tiangong on July 15, Wukong for having attended the crew in a six -hour and a half mission, which invites Taikonauts installing protective space debris during spacewalk and performing a routine inspection of the station.
The Taikonauts say that their new assistant “offers very complete content”. The Chinese media Descirbe Wukong AI as a classic question-answer system divided into two modules: one installed on the station and one on earth. The soil module performs an in -depth analysis, while the module accompanying the crew solves the immediate challenges. The combination of the two creates an advanced assistant capable of adapting to each mission.
Wukong is in the first at System in Space or the first of the station. The international space station has already Astrobee, a robot that helps astronouts with routine tasks, and Cimon, a conversational psychological support system. The particularity of Wukong AI is that it combines the functions of an intelligent assistant – like those used on earth – with total accent on space navigation.
Tiangong station is at the heart of China’s strategy to consolidate its space power position over the next 30 years. The station is currently used as a microgravity laboratory for experiences that would be impossible on earth. In the future, China plans to extend it and transform it into a platform for logistics and intermediate training Bethaeen the moon and the surface of the earth.
And the reason for the name of AI? Sun Wukong is a mythical person who appears in the classic novel Trip to the west. In China, it symbolizes cunning, adaptability, endurance and the pursuit of knowledge.
This story initially looked at Wired in Español and was translated from Spanish.
