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Clarissa On Schedule To Join Space Shuttle As Nonhuman Aide; But Not Like "2001' Flick's HAL; Clarissa speech-recognition software will let computers tell astronauts what to do.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)
Byline: BRIAN DEAGON
It's not red-eyed HAL -- the seeing, talking computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- but she's the closest thing to it in the real world.
Sometime later this year, the International Space Station will receive Clarissa, a voice-operated virtual crew assistant.
Actually, Clarissa is software. But it will be downloaded into laptop computers to help the station's astronauts with the many complex tasks they conduct. Xerox and NASA Ames developed it.
"It's not at all like HAL, which used artificial intelligence," said Beth Ann Hockey, project leader at NASA Ames. "But Clarissa has some smarts in it and is state of the art technology for command and control operations."
Speech recognition software has been available for years. It still faces a long journey before reaching anywhere near perfection, but it's steadily improving.
Companies already widely use the technology for such chores as handling customer service calls.
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