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Amazon Alexa assisting NASA to become smarter at work
While you are busy giving Alexa commands to play your favourite song or book an Uber, the intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets.
Washington : While you are busy giving Alexa commands to play your favourite song or book an Uber, the intelligent virtual assistant from Amazon is helping the US space agency organise daily tasks while making sense of intrinsic data-sets.
According to Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), voice as a platform will become the next big thing once we learn to talk to digital assistants and chatbots in a fashion we do with friends and family. "This enables serverless computing where we don't need to build for scale but for real-life work cases and get the desired results in a much cheaper way. Remember that voice as a platform is poised to give 10 times faster results," Soderstrom noted on the inaugural "Earth and Space Day".
Serverless computing allows people to build and run applications and services without thinking about provision, scale and manage any servers. AWS is a marker leader in this segment, providing a set of fully-managed services to clients in the public sector, thus allowing them to focus more on product innovation. Alexa, for example, can help JPL employees scan through 400,000 sub-contracts and get the requested copy of the contract from the data-set right on the desktop in a jiffy.
Pasadena, California-based JPL is a federally-funded research and development centre, managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) that carries out key robotic space and Earth science missions. The facility currently has nearly 6,000 employees. According to Soderstrom, there are six technology waves that will primarily force developers to create better solutions before they impact the common people. . The NASA-JPL executive stressed that AI is not going to take away jobs and will supplement humans in the future.
"AI will transform industries ranging from healthcare to retail and e-commerce and auto and transportation. Sectors that won't embrace AI will be left behind," Soderstrom added. AI-powered digital assistants will be the key to enhance productivity. "Humans are 80 per cent effective and machines are also 80 per cent effective. When you bring them together, they're nearly 95 per cent effective," he noted. The next technological tsunami, Soderstrom said, will come in the form of built-in intelligence everywhere and the world needs to prepare itself to handle that.
