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NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy
The multi-modal tool, which includes speech, text and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.
The tool, called Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA), is designed to help astronauts diagnose and treat symptoms when no doctor is available or communications to Earth are blacked out. NASA scientists said in a slide deck about the effort they are planning on adding more data sources, like medical devices, and training the model to be “situationally aware” – that is, attuned to space medicine-specific conditions like microgravity. Cruley was vague about whether Google intends to pursue regulatory clearance to take this type of medical assistant into doctor’s offices here on Earth, but it could be an obvious next step if the model is validated on orbit.
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