I use AI all the time for different school projects. I occasionally use it for space center projects. I'm a firm believer that A.I. is the future. Many will say I'm wrong and that AI will never be able to fully do what a human can do, but I strongly disagree. The sooner we understand it, learn about it, and learn how to use it properly as a tool to help us be more creative and effective in our jobs the better. That goes for the space centers as well.
Yesterday I saw AI in action at the AI and the Space Center Workshop taught by Ben Murdoch. Ben was assisted by his wife Cayla and Wyatt Lenhart. Wyatt is a former Odyssey Flight Director and currently works in software development locally. Ben is a former Galileo flight director back in the day. He currently works in at Google's headquarters in California on developing AI for Google's Gemini AI division. Ben painting a picture of AI being able to write complete simulator missions in scripted form, produce the visuals and graphic art, and even code the ship's computers with ship controls - all from prompts. Of course, some of this is down the road several years, but it is coming. In Saturday's workshop, our Voyager's were introduce to a tool Ben developed to write missions using a branch of Open AI 4 paired with a program he created in Python. The students were tasked with using the prompting tools to create a new mission for the simulators. At the end of the workshop, teams were given the opportunity to summarize their missions. As they summarized, Ben wrote a AI to evaluate their missions and score them on a 75 point basis. Marcus Porter's AI mission won. Of course the missions were not tellable in that form and much work would be needed to rewrite sections into usable script form, but the outline of a good story was there. Needless to say, I was impressed. I want to thank Ben, Cayla,and Wyatt Lenhart for teaching the workshop and thank all those in our Voyager Clubs who participated. After the workshop Ben, Cayla, Wyatt and I went to lunch and discussed future workshops Ben will teach this school year covering all aspect of AI and the Space Centers. We will plan on one workshop every time Ben and Cayla come to Utah to visit family (which is several times a year). A.I. will be a major focus for our Voyager Club's Academy this school year with the end goal that each participant will have a completed mission story, mission script, and graphic art to go with the story ready for presentation by June. Watch for announcements in the Google Classroom and here in the blog. Imaginarium Theater.
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AuthorMy name is Victor Williamson. I founded the Christa McAuliffe Space Center in 1990. I current teach 6th grade at Renaissance Academy and am the Space Center Outreach Coordinator (I take care of the volunteers). You can reach me by email: [email protected] Archives
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