NASA and Google are collaborating to evaluate a medical assistant with AI designed to support astronauts in long -term missions, where delays in communication with Earth make real -time medical consultations impossible.
NASA, which is committed to a new era or human spatial flight with its Artemis program, working with Google to test a concept test for a digital assistant of the crew medical officer (CMO -DA), a type of system of support for clinical decisions (CDSS).
The digital wizard would provide medical support to astronauts when it works beyond the low terrestrial orbit, as in missions to the moon and Mars, which allows crews to diagnose and treat autonomously and treat symptoms.
“Trained in the space flight literature, the AI system uses Natural Vanguard and Automatic Learning processing techniques to provide really analysis of the health and crew performance,” Google representatives said in a statement on August 8.
According to the statement, early results indicate the possibility of reliable diagnoses based on informed symptoms. NASA and Google now work with doctors to try and refine the model more.
The missions in the deep space, even to the moon or Mars, can involve delays in communication, sometimes up to 45 minutes for the round trip of time of light for real -time consultations on the impossible red planet. And a quick return to the earth, obviously, is not an option in such cases.
Therefore, an ia assistant on board could help close a critical gap. Technology could also be useful in remote and demanding environments here on Earth, where access to trained medical professionals is limited.
