
Appears we won’t undergo an hour with out listening to information about synthetic intelligence as of late. There are a whole lot of thrilling developments, and a few of the most enjoyable when occupied with area are coming from the USRA’s Analysis Institute for Superior Pc Science (RIACS), which is on the slicing fringe of the leading edge.
In this episode, we’re talking with the institute’s director, Dr. David Bell, who will stroll us via the variations between present AI, agentic AI, and — are you prepared? — quantum-powered AI, and their present and future potential to revolutionize area exploration and improvement. Be a part of us!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Area covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be a part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You may subscribe immediately in your favourite podcatcher.

Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Advert Astra journal. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Method, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the Area Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and brief movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to numerous sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic ebook The Proper Stuff.

Chargeable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com staff in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter masking human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night time sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has offered area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 occasions as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” experience whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a employees reporter for The Los Angeles Instances masking metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.