NASA wants users to know more about the planet and have their bugging questions easily answered when pondering about the living world, with its recent partnership with Microsoft delivering the latest 'Earth Copilot.' Yes, NASA entered the business of AI chatbots to offer the public a chance to learn more about the planet in this new partnership with Microsoft, taking advantage of AI's significant developments.
Instead of having users search the web or NASA's massive library for everything about the planet, Earth Copilot will fill in on the nagging questions users have, also making it easier for them to understand.
NASA, Microsoft Launch 'Earth Copilot' For All Planetary Matters
The latest press release from Microsoft unveiled its latest partnership with NASA to bring a new AI chatbot called 'Earth Copilot' which is tasked to answer all questions relating to planetary matters. NASA is known for its many monitoring technologies for the planet, including a satellite that orbits the Earth on a daily basis which can collect petabytes of data to share with the public.
However, NASA's data are far too massive for all of these to be shared with the public in ways that they can easily understand, and this is why Earth Copilot was born. The national space agency developed a custom 'copilot' based on the Azure OpenAI Service to deliver the experience.
Through this, more data from NASA's satellites will be easily available for the public to understand, and it will be immediately available to them thanks to Azure's renowned cloud computing technology that can handle such massive information.
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NASA Brings an AI Chatbot for Everything Earth
According to NASA, the agency is looking to "democratize data access" for the regular person to its humongous collection from its everyday orbit of the planet. Earth Copilot is first and foremost, an AI chatbot, and this means that it will process the data from NASA to more understandable information for the masses.
This "AI-powered data access" to NASA's collection allows the public to get context and knowledge when asking a question about the planet's current state, made possible via Microsoft's Azure and Copilot.
Microsoft's Recent Partnerships for AI
Microsoft saw significant advancements regarding its artificial intelligence developments after the company's strategic investments in the previously up-and-coming AI company, OpenAI, helping it advance at a rapid pace in this age. Thanks to that, Microsoft was able to expand its AI capabilities under its renowned service including Azure's cloud computing platform, recently getting significant partnerships from renowned companies.
That being said, Microsoft's AI services are not only meant for tech companies to use, as Azure is best known for offering its cloud services for corporations and enterprises to expand their technologies. Coca-Cola has recently locked in a $1.1 billion deal with Microsoft to use their renowned cloud services that also offer artificial intelligence for its business use cases.
Copilot has also been leveraged as an AI model for different companies and was not limited to the Windows operating system for consumer tech, and Microsoft saw significant successes in this in the past months. Now, Microsoft engaged in a significant service in partnership with NASA, with Earth Copilot set to offer immense knowledge of the platform and make it easily understandable for the masses.
