{"id":341,"date":"2004-09-07T07:37:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=341"},"modified":"2004-09-07T07:37:26","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T13:37:26","slug":"virtual-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/09\/07\/virtual-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VR in spaaaaace!<\/p>\n<p>Well, another theme from recent science-fiction seems to be the next step in actual science.  At least, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/businesstechnology\/virtual_astronauts_040901.html\">according to this article on Space.com<\/a>.  It seems the journey to another star might prove to be a little stressful on humans, so scientists are proposing to send AI (artificial intelligences) instead of, or in addition to, human astronauts.  It could be a good thing, considering that it would make it easier to get a craft further faster, but I saw Star Trek the Motion Picture, so I&#8217;m leary of a V&#8217;Ger coming home to wipe us out!  Seriously, there are still a lot of issues to work out, like the intelligence part of AI, but it&#8217;s a promising start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VR in spaaaaace! Well, another theme from recent science-fiction seems to be the next step in actual science. At least, according to this article on Space.com. It seems the journey to another star might prove to be a little stressful on humans, so scientists are proposing to send AI (artificial intelligences) instead of, or in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,28,30],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}