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8675. ChatGPT or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI-or should I...?
Moderator: Bino Gopal
Come to a talk about Generative AI for beginners to dispel myths and talk about how it really works and what things you can benefit from with GenAI-and what things to watch out for from someone who works in the tech industry in the space and deals with it every day.
Bino Gopal, Ashish Mahabal, Alfred Nash, Robert Rankin, Martin Young
FRI 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, La Jolla B
8747. Mission Updates: The latest news from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Moderator: Krys Blackwood
Join engineers and scientists from NASA's JPL to hear the latest and greatest about missions to Mars, Europa, and Venus - plus new Earth science which aims to understand our own planet.
Krys Blackwood, Chris Butler, Varoujan Gorjian PhD, Melora Larson, Alfred Nash, Seth Potter
SAT 10:00 am - 11:15 am, Los Angeles A
8674. Charting the Cosmos: The New Frontier in Space Science
Moderator: Arlene Busby
The future of space science potentially includes traveling to other planets & settling on the moon. Additionally, future mining and fueling outposts, and exploration outside the Solar System using robotics.
Arlene Busby, Timothy G Cassidy-Curtis, Lenny Dorsky, Ashish Mahabal, Alfred Nash, Michael Ravine
SAT 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm, Los Angeles A
8799. Taking the Earth's Temperature: The Impact of Climate Change
Moderator: Melora Larson
Putting specialized cameras and other sensors in Earth orbit allow us to keep an eye on the health of plants and cities around the globe. There are several currently orbiting missions (ECOSTRESS, EMIT, OCO-3 and more) and some planned follow-on missions that are keeping an eye on the surface temperatures around the globe, the carbon and methane emissions around the globe, and the movement of dust around the globe. What these missions have taught us, and what more we can learn from the planned missions will be discussed.
Tad Daley, Melora Larson, Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, Alfred Nash, Jules Rivera, Jane Shevtsov
SAT 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, Los Angeles A