Space Exploration Technologies Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) VP of Launch, Kiko Dontchev, has said that the company’s Grok AI model is helping identify pieces of debris in the rocket’s different components.
Grok’s Accuracy Surpasses Humans
In an interview with Ars Technica on Monday, Dontchev discussed the incorporation of AI into workflows at SpaceX following the commercial spaceflight giant’s acquisition of the Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI.
Dontchev said that the company has undergone a “huge acceleration of adoption” of AI technologies compared to a year ago. “The acceleration we have seen in our ability to do engineering is unlike anything I’ve ever seen at the company in my 16 years,” he said, adding that tasks which initially took days were solved within minutes.
“We’ve automated being able to detect FOD,” Dontchev said, pointing to the adoption of Grok. “We find that humans are about 94 percent perfect (at) finding a piece of it [Debris],” Dontchev said. “Grok analyzing the same video is 99.9 percent perfect,” he added.
The report also said that Dontchev believed AI would help SpaceX reach its interplanetary goals quicker. “Without AI, I think we still would have gotten to the Moon. I think we still get to Mars with SI. We’re going to get there so much faster,” he said.
SpaceX’s AI Offer
Following the GOP’s setback in the midterm elections, uncertainty looms over Musk’s AI data center goals as the Democratic Party flipped Texas and both Senator-elect James Talarico (D-Texas) and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa (D-Texas) have expressed reservations about data centers and AI.
Musk received an offer to set up data centers in Lithuania from Lithuanian Member of Parliament Matas Maldeikis, who has been a lawmaker since 2020, representing the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats party.
On the other hand, Musk has also backed Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google co-founder Larry Page‘s prediction that AI compute would move on to space. “Larry Page has made many accurate predictions and this is one of them,” Musk said about Page’s prediction.
Price Action: SPCX shares were down 0.44% to $141.44 premarket on Tuesday.
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