Exploring the universe through Artificial Intelligence
Historic: intelligent automata (Talos), artificial beings (Galatea and Pandora), Ars Magna, a universal calculus of reasoning (the alphabet of human thought), the concept of "utility", the foundations of Bayes' theorem, artificial neural networks (the perceptron), Game Theory, the report Intelligent Machinery, Hebbian learning, Turing test, First functional AI programs; (inter)national conferences, behavior-based robotics, using machine learning algorithms to identify exoplanets, DARPA Grand Challenge, Artificial Compassionate Intelligence, using AI in Martian exploration, deep learning network, spatial mapping, Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI, models of language (T‑NLG, GPT‑3), First Global AI Safety Summit, Google Releases Gemini 1.5, OpenAI Publicly Announces Sora, StabilityAI Announces Stable Diffusion 3, AI is constantly revealing new discoveries to us
Notable achievements: Discovery of exoplanets, Mapping of space, Autonomous planetary missions, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Simulation and modeling of the universe, Analysis of astronomical data, Finding space debris, Human-robot interaction, Extracting information from astronomical images, Identification of cosmic structures, Error correction of space instruments, Planning space missions, Deep space exploration, Prevention and anticipation of space disasters, Optimization of spacecraft performance and efficiency, Discovery of cosmic signals, Analysis of planetary composition and structure, Assistance in lunar exploration; Machine Learning and Neural Networks, Natural and Conversational Language Processing, Machine Vision and Image Processing, Robotics and Human-Machine Interaction, Data Processing and Data Mining, Security and Threat Detection, Healthcare, Process Automation, Medical Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence in manufacturing, Adversarial generative models, Quantum learning, Predicting user behavior, Knowledge management systems, Software test automation, Multi-objective reinforcement learning, Cognitive modeling, Unguaranteed cost learning, Automatic assessment of situations, Predicting responses and actions, Reverse engineering of human behavior, Knowledge management systems, Learning with genetic algorithms
Exemplary stories: Mars Rover Curiosity, Deep Space Network, SETI Project, Kepler Space Telescope, SkyNet Project, Blue Brain Project, Film The Martian, Breakthrough Starshot Project, Voyager Program; Sample Books, Sample Movies, Sample Games and Software
Portrait gallery: Yann LeCun, Alex Krizhevsky, Fei‐Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow, Andrej Karpathy, Francois Chollet, Demis Hassabis, Pieter Abbeel, John McCarthy, Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, Andrew Ng, Satya Mallick, Ethan Rublee
Exploration through Imaginary/Speculative Fiction: Literary works, Cinematographic works, Computer games
Unclear hypotheses/conspiracies/mysteries: Control of information, Supervision of outer space, Autonomy of space systems, Communication with extraterrestrial civilizations
Perspective: interpretation of astronomical data, complex cosmic phenomena and the possibilities of life in the entire universe, better anticipation of risks and increased efficiency in space research, improved performance of space robots, associated ethical challenges and responsibilities