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If you are looking for an answer to the question What is Artificial Intelligence? and you only have a minute, then here's the definition the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence offers on its home page: "the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines."

However, if you are fortunate enough to have more than a minute, then please get ready to embark upon an exciting journey exploring AI (but beware, it could last a lifetime) …

Meet CIMON, the 1st Robot with Artificial Intelligence to Fly in Space

#artificialintelligenceJun-29-2018, 22:21:17 GMT

A beautiful space-exploration friendship between human and machine may have just begun. Early this morning (June 29), a small robot endowed with artificial intelligence (AI) launched on a two-day trip to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule. No other AI-equipped machine has ever flown to space before, project team members said. The mission of the bantam astronaut assistant -- known as CIMON, short for "Crew Interactive Mobile Companion" -- is relatively short and modest. But its work off-Earth could help pave the way for some pretty big things, according to NASA officials.

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