Mountain View, California – Space startups continue to explore applications for artificial intelligence, from large-scale language models to neural networks.
For example, the ChatGpt bot reads the Slack channel of Orbital Sidekick. “One of the hardest things for us was tracking when and where our customer datasets came,” he said at the SmallSat symposium here on February 4th. “(Bot) can ask questions and warn me when the dataset is here.”
In the future, Orbital Sidekick executives hope that large-scale language models will help analyse historical data. Customers relying on Orbital Sidekick to monitor oil and gas pipelines could see where and where previous leaks occurred.
Additionally, Orbital Sidekick is investing in neural networks to modify data labels.
“There aren’t many people in the geospatial world about false alarms,” Prabhakar said. “When you’re detecting methane or liquid hydrocarbons, they’re everywhere.”
A bad job
Alan Campbell, a leading AWS Space Solutions Architect, also sees benefits from the “glamourous” AI application.
“Document summary, increased code efficiency, these are great uses for large-scale language models,” Campbell said.
Millennium Space CEO Tony Gingiss said AI tools could not replace human workers and could become more efficient.
Many people struggle to track the hundreds of emails they receive each day.
“Can you know how to process that data and get over the noise to something important? That’s going to be a transformational thing,” Ginsis said.
New Applications
Some AWS customers are exploring new AI applications.
Generated AI supports Finland-based Icy Pair Synthetic Aperture Radar Images. Earn from a small satellite sign with social media images showing flood levels.
With that information, Iceye will “generate a status report for the first pass to local government,” Campbell said.
Another AWS partner, Degas Ltd., is a Tokyo-based, agricultural-centric financial technology company that has developed a chatbot for farmers in Ghana.
“Farmers can say, ‘What is the best agricultural practice on my particular farm?” Campbell said. “Chatbots provide targeted, localized answers based on a basic geospatial model.”
Double-edged sword
Despite the benefits of AI tools, Lucy Hoag, founder and CEO of Violet Labs, a San Francisco-based software developer, was paying attention.
Last week, Violet Labs focused on some applications where hardware engineering tasks are running slowly. After the investigation, engineers at Violet Labs noticed that the issue was related to programming techniques recommended by Microsoft Copilot.
The recommended recursive functions were suitable for certain operations. “When you grow from that scale, it gets really bad,” Hoag said. “It’s a double-edged sword.”
