Comments on: NASA spawns smart twin in 'Second Life'

Space agency is trying all manner of Web 2.0 tools to promote missions to the tech-savvy crowd. First it was tweeting, and now it has a cybertwin.

[Kev Orng]

What happens when you ask it questions unrelated to the mission?

[stefanvolos]

Is the Phoenix bot equipped with Xcite?

[DerekLerner]

also check out "Eddie," the four-year-old AI avatar http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/03/rpi-creating-ai.html

[Tracy-MyCyberTwin]

In reply to non-mission related questions: CyberTwins usually come with an instant pre-trained AI brain, which you can get here: www.mycybertwin.com.
You simply pick a personality style, switch it on, and your CyberTwin will be able to answer tens of thousands of questions accurately. This makes them the fastest, smartest, most inexpensive chat robots available. But for Phoenix, NASA decided sounding more robotic would be cool, becaue it is a a robot, so we turned off the pre-trained personality, to make Phoenix CyberTwin very mission focused.
The company website contains more information: http://mycybertwin.com/company/

[masonlucas]

Hi...
Just wanted to add that the JPL Facebook site (Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA) actually has over 1,300 members.
I think the Phoenix Lander Facebook site you've referenced is possibly unofficial since the JPL site has all the up to date links and information on it.
Thanks
Mase

[searl2112]

You ALL STUPID???? NASA SAID THE ATMOSPHERE WAS 8.5 mbar...ROFL DO YOU ALL THINK A CHUTE WOULD WORK IN NEAR VACUUM??? lol the atmosphere is 824.7 mbar
ANYONE EVER THINK TO ASK WHAT THE OFFICAL READINGS FOR MARS ATMOSPHERE IS? OR ARE YOU ALL GOING TO SIT THERE AND THINK YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?

[benjaminstraight]

Pretty cool