Chinese researchers say they have given artificial intelligence full control over the Earth-orbiting Qimingxing 1 satellite as part of an experiment to test the technology’s behavior in space. It has been reported South China Morning Post.
According to SCMP, the tiny Qimingxing 1 Earth observation satellite was controlled by Chinese ground-based AI within 24 hours without any orders, instructions or human intervention.
The research team was led by Wang Mi, a scientist from the State Information Engineering Laboratory in Geodesy, Mapping and Remote Sensing. The purpose of the experiment was to see how the artificial intelligence would control the device.
As a result, according to the study’s authors, the system selected several locations on Earth and ordered Qimingxing 1 to examine them, all of which turned out to be objects of potential interest to the military. Scientists claim that AI itself picks these spots.
The first such point was the city of Patna, near the Ganges River in northeastern India, where the regiment was based and engaged in a military conflict with Chinese soldiers, and the second was the port of Osaka in Japan, where US military ships regularly stopped. .
It was previously reported that China. first launched space-specific rocket TL-2 Y1. The launch was made by a private Chinese company, Space Pioneer, from its “Jiuquan” headquarters in northwest China.