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Nasa Embraces AI: New AI tools excel at tasks such as identifying smoke from wildfires or counting trees in satellite imagery.
AI Chief's Role: David Salvagnini, NASA’s first chief AI officer, described his role as harmonizing AI efforts within the agency, likening it to conducting a symphony.
Key Functions of the CAIO: Driving innovative AI use at NASA, establishing a governance structure for responsible AI use, and providing AI learning opportunities for employees.
The Internal Debate
NASA's internal discussions revealed both excitement and concerns about generative AI tools like ChatGPT.
Emails from early 2023 showed strong internal demand for OpenAI tools and confusion about their appropriate use. Staff expressed frustration over the lack of access and clarity.
Although current policy prohibits the use of sensitive data on generative AI systems, NASA is working with leading vendors to approve these systems for sensitive data use soon.
Human Oversight: NASA emphasized that AI will be used in collaboration with humans and not replace them, acknowledging that AI tools can make mistakes.
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Research
A New Google AI Agent
Google Project Astra: A New Frontier for AI-Powered Visual Search
What is Project Astra? A personal AI assistant that can answer questions about anything you see. A visual chatbot that combines Google Lens’ capabilities with advanced AI. By simply pointing your phone’s camera at objects, you can ask questions and get detailed answers.
How Does It Work? Project Astra leverages Google’s Gemini AI to understand the context of what your camera sees. It can then identify objects, analyze code on a computer screen, or even recognize landmarks.
Tool Spotlight
StarCoder is a Large Language Model for Code (Code LLM) that has been developed using permissively licensed data from GitHub, with a model trained on 1 trillion tokens and fine-tuned for 35 billion Python tokens, and it performs better than existing open Code LLMs.
AI Creations
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Prompt: A modern 2-floored house in the forest