back to article IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there

IBM has published two open-source artificial intelligence projects it hopes will help astronomers better deal with space junk – and encourage startups to circle Earth with swarms of CubeSats. The Space Situational Awareness (SSA) project looks at anthropogenic space objects (ASOs), the fancy term for stuff humans have lobbed …

  1. TimMaher Silver badge
    Alien

    Cyberdyne Systems

    For KubeSat read Skynet.

  2. Chris G

    What is the difference between the estimated number of ASOs compared to the number of known and located objects, I wonder?

  3. davemcwish

    Crysis Remastered

    Using that amount of hardware to run AI calculations is all very good but how about Crysis Remastered?

  4. David 164

    How about they put it to use on working on a FRL drive.

  5. Mike 16

    Only 120GB or RAM and 16 cores?

    That's gonna struggle to run MacOS Kahoʻolawe (11.1)

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