Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station

Latest addition From China’s Tiangong Space Station is a AII Chatbot efficiently in navigation and strategic plans. After the name of the Ukong AI – the hero The “monkey King” is the legend Chinese myths, San Ukong – The Chatbot It was introduced at the space station in mid -July and it had already completed its first mission: supported three Taekonot during a spacewalk.

The information related to the Ukong AI is limited. Chinese authorities say they made it from a domestic open source AI model; According to the Chinese state-run news agency Sinhua, engineers designed it to meet the needs of the Mankind Space Mission and focus on its knowledge-base in the Aerospace flight data.

“This system can provide fast and effective information assistance to the operation of complex operations and errors by the members of the crew, improve the skills of work skills, internal psychological assistance and adjustment between space and ground parties,” Taikon Training Center Ju Pengofy, Tells SinhuaThe

Technicians attached AI to Tiangong on July 7. It began to provide assistance a month later, for the first time to use a large language model (LLM) during the China’s Space Station In-Caipline Mission. The Ukong assisted in a six -and -a -half -hour mission to the AI ​​crew, one of which installed space Debrece protection devices during spacewalk and perform a regular inspection of the station.

Taekonouts have claimed that their new assistant “provides very wide content.” The Chinese Media Ucong describes AI as a classic Q&A system that is divided into two modules: installed at a station and installing one on a earth. The ground module performs a deeper analysis, while the module with the crew resolves instant challenges. The combination of the two creates an advanced assistant capable of adapting to each mission.

The first AI system in the Ukong space or not the first at any station. The International space station Already there is Astrobi, a robot that helps innovators in minimal work and a conversation is a psychological assistance system Simon. The feature of the Ukong AI is that it is an intelligent assistant with a total focus on space navigation – as used on earth

The Tiang Station is the key to China’s strategy to consolidate its position as a place power in the next 30 years. The station currently acts as a microphrabity laboratory for such tests that will be impossible on earth. In the future, China plans to expand it and turn it into an intermediate supply and training platform between the surface of the moon and the earth.

And the reason for AI’s name? San Ukong is a mythical person who appears in the classic novel WestThe In China, he is clever, adaptable, tolerance and search of knowledge.

This story was originally attended Wired in Spanish And have been translated from Spanish.