Meet Wukong, Ai Chatbot China installed at its space station

Last additive Tiangong China Space Station is a chat of artificial intelligence specialization in navigation and tactical planning. Wukong AI-After the main character of the “King Monkey” in Chinese mythology, Sun Wukong-Chatbot was introduced at the space station in mid-July and has already completed its first mission: supporting three Taikonauts during a space space.

Information on Wukong AI is limited. Chinese officials have said they have developed it from an internal open source artificial intelligence model. Engineers designed it to meet the requirements of the manned space missions and focused their knowledge on aerospace flight data, Shin Air said.

“This system can provide quick and effective support for complex operations and fault operations by crew members, improved work efficiency, psychological support in circuit and coordination between space and ground teams,” Zo Pongfi of the Taikonaut Training Center.

Technicians connected artificial intelligence to Tiangong on July 15. This one month after the support began, this is the first time that the Chinese Space Station has used a large language model (LLM) in intra -circuit missions. The Wukong AI helped the crew in a six -and -a -half -hour mission, including Taikonauts installing space remains during a space and performing a routine inspection from the station.

Taikonauts claims that their new assistant “provides very comprehensive content.” Chinese media divide Wukong AI as a classic question and answer system into two modules: one installed at the station and the other on the ground. The Earth’s module performs deep analysis, while the module with crew resolves immediate challenges. The combination of these two creates an advanced assistant capable of adapting to any mission.

Wukong is neither the first artificial intelligence system in space nor first at a station. The International Space Station currently has Astroge, a robot that helps astronauts with everyday work, and Cimon, a psychological support system. The special Wukong AI is that it combines the functions of a smart assistant – such as things used on the ground – with a complete focus on spatial navigation.

The Tiangong Station is the core of China’s strategy to consolidate its position as a space power over the next 30 years. The station is currently serving as a microbial laboratory for experiments that will be impossible on the ground. In the future, China intends to expand it and make it a supply platform and average education between the moon and the ground level.

And the reason for the name of artificial intelligence? Sun Wukong is a mythical person that appears in the classic novel Travel to the WestHuman beings in China, he is a symbol of cunning, adaptation, endurance and pursuit of knowledge.

This story appeared first Wired en español And translated from Spanish.