IBL News | New York
NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to create an AI chatbot called Earth Copilot.
NASA’s Earth Copilot, which uses Azure OpenAI Service, has condensed NASA’s vast scientific geospatial information and answers questions about Earth. This data can help drive scientific discoveries, inform policy decisions, and support industries like agriculture, urban planning, and disaster response.
It lets users interact with NASA’s data repository through plain-language queries. They can ask questions such as “What was the impact of Hurricane Ian on Sanibel Island?” or “How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect air quality in the US?” AI will then retrieve relevant datasets, making the process seamless and intuitive.
The development of this AI prototype aligns with NASA’s Open Science initiative, which aims to make scientific research more transparent, inclusive, and collaborative.
At the moment, the NASA Earth Copilot is only available to NASA scientists and researchers to explore and test its capabilities.
After internal evaluations and testing, the NASA IMPACT team said they will explore its integration into the VEDA platform, which already offers access to some of the agency’s data.
