NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload

Speculation over where Microsoft would take the Copilot brand next can now end thanks to the announcement of Earth Copilot in partnership with NASA. Rather than framing the planet as a successor to Deep Thought from the Hitchhiker's Guide in pursuit of the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, this AI …

[that one in the corner]

"Misused"? Strange way to spell "mistrusted'"

> Any responsible deployment of AI technologies requires rigorous assessments to ensure the data and outputs cannot be misused.

Misused, as in taking the LLMs results at face value!

Interesting new problem is added to the mix: how do you verify that the data Copilot presents you is the *complete* set of "relevant* data? With no little additions?

Whilst we are here, how stable are the results of your Copilot enquiry? Is the work repeatable or will an innocuous change in the way the query is worded going to cause a different dataset to be returned?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "Misused"? Strange way to spell "mistrusted'"

“an innocuous change in the way the query is worded”

or no change at all, because LLMs have proven themselves to be such great, deterministic tools with predictable outputs...

[Paul Herber]

Copilot? What's in all that data?

Copilot: My God, it's full of stars!

[Anonymous Coward]

I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in this dataset.

[An_Old_Dog]

Misuse?

"Copilot, show me visual data relating to weather patterns near Groom Lake, NV, USA."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Misuse?

I'm sorry, Dog, I can't do that.

[ecofeco]

WTF?

Seriously. WTF?

[xyz]

Meh...

This has worked fine for years without bloody copilot. The "Nasa" data isn't really Nasa (more ESA) data and Microsoft already has every data set available in MS's planetarycomputer. The problem is getting at the data and not sifting the data but MS has done a good job of that using their ancient sdslite api (which was a development by Cambridge and Moscow unis yonks ago.)

This is just more copilot BS; speaking of which, my win 10 laptop got lumbered with (unsolicited) yesterday and which promptly got uninstalled.

[I am David Jones]

I would have thought that co-pilot won’t help the academics, they’ll want the raw data.

And plebs like me will be better served by a normal search engine or Wikipedia. I can’t imagine that copilot’s insights into the raw data will be reliable enough to be useful.