Microsoft confirms its creating a new AI that’s trained on NASA’s 100 petabytes of Earth data [Video]

NASA has been capturing valuable data on our planet for many years now, and according to a recent blog post from Microsoft, the US space agency has gathered more than 100 petabytes of data on various Earth-related scientific domains.

Microsoft has announced that it’s partnering with NASA to create a new AI chatbot that will be trained on NASA’s mountain of Earth data. The goal of the new AI chatbot is to make it easier to shift through the plethora of data NASA has gathered, making it easier to answer questions about the planet. The new AI chatbot will be called Earth Copilot, and its purpose is to “democratize” access to scientific data, while also developing a keen understanding of the information within NASA’s databases.

Tyler Bryson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of health and public sector industries, explained in the announcement that those interested in acquiring Earth-related answers through scientific data have …