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Scientist proposes cyborg astronauts to seek out new life

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Scientist proposes cyborg astronauts to seek out new life

If University of Chicago geoscientist Patrick McGuire starts calling the shots, NASA won't have to decide between sending a person or a robot into space. They could just send a "cyborg astrobiologists" — or advanced artificial intelligence riding piggyback on an astronaut.

McGuire's team has been working on what's known as a Hopfield neural network, specifically programmed to identify new forms o...


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