NASA deploys AI to fast-track future moon missions

Right now, at 5 30 from Fox 35 Mission Control, AI is helping NASA get back to the moon. Space agency just announced a brand new partnership with artificial intelligence to study the planets and help scientists work faster at a perfect time to be involving a everybody's thinking about it. 35 Esther Bauer now with how it works. NASA says it trained this way a new a I model by using data from orbiters that have already been studying the moon for nearly 20 years. As the space race hits up, this new a I could help researchers dig into data and really move faster than ever before. Where should humans land and where's water on the lunar surface? We're going to be able to find things so much faster. A I could be the newest tool answering those questions and getting the United States back to the moon. I'm looking for these exact parameters, this depth of a crater, this much darkness by that crater. You know, in a matter of minutes or hours, you could find new places that we never thought to even look for ice. NASA just announced a brand new a I partnership with IBM Research and several academic institutions. NASA trained the a I using decades of data moon orbiters have already collected. It's looking at new technologies. It's looking at how can we move faster? Speed is very important right now because we're in a second space race with China on our tail to land humans on the moon. A I could filter information so scientists don't have to. It does the big comb through. It does the ugly work of looking through. NASA says it's collected tons of data over the years, but it needs more eyes to really understand it and figure out where to go next. An a I officer with NASA says we also have to make data easier for scientists to explore and use. The NASA IBM Lunar Foundation model shows what's possible when we bring a I to NASA's petabytes of scientific data. That's a real opportunity we see with a I turning large scale data into new discoveries. It's gonna help us find things faster. But I mean, it's also a I. You know, we're still learning a I models. Space experts say since a I is expanding so rapidly, we can't rely on it completely. And human scientists should still have the final say. You start to actually use your scientists for a much more detailed analysis. And this new a I tool wasn't just made for NASA researchers. It's actually public facing right now, and anyone can download that data at home. At this point, it's unclear how it will affect human jobs at NASA with using this new a I reporting in Brevard County, Esther Mauer, Fox 35 News.