Cyborg Astrobiologists to Tend Mars?
Patrick McGuire, a University of Chicago geoscientist, believes that "cyborg astrobiologists" could be sent into space where no human has gone before. His team uses a Hopfield neural network to compare data found on other planets. At this point, the wearable AI system with digital eyes can already identify lichen from rock by color, but McGuire has future plans to be able to differentiate texture. Since this may not make to Mars any time soon, the cyborgs could be used on Earth for a while to identify materials that may have come from beyond and landed on our mere planet.
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Posted by Sheila Franklin at November 11, 2009 8:50 PM
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