IBM Watson: Just When I Thought Big Blue Was Going to Sell Mainframes
March 2, 2018
I read and marveled at the report called “IBM Watson Is Heading to Space in an 11-Pound Smiling Orb Called CIMON.” I thought IBM went to space with HAL almost 50 years ago. Like IBM’s use of Charlie Chaplin, IBM dips into the past for its new ideas.
I learned:
The orb, dubbed CIMON, short for Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, will be taken to the ISS in June by German astronaut and scientist Alexander Gerst. It has been designed as an experimental assistance system to support astronauts in performing routine work.
Okay, none of that HAL stuff this time around. At least, that’s my assumption.
The write up added:
Manfred Jaumann, head of microgravity payloads at Airbus SE, which designed the hardware, said that “CIMON will be the first AI-based mission and flight assistance system,” a sort of “free flyer, a kind of flying brain” that will interact with, aid and learn from astronauts.
From Jeopardy to cancer to an astronaut’s digital Friday. Amazing.
As the song lyrics say:
You’ll take the lead on each trip we take
Then if I don’t do well
I will permit you to use the brake.
For me, I would pull the plug. Just as Dave did 50 years ago.
Stephen E Arnold, March 2, 2018
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