Astrobot Ella, Artificial Intelligence traveling in space

Image from Nasa Hubble Space Telescope

You probably don’t know, but she’s traveling to the solar system HIP 4872 in Cassiopeia constellation. She’s mankind’s ambassador. She’s not a living being. It’s a chatbot. An old, primitive chatbot from 2003 whose code is written in VisualBasic.Net.

In that year, however, it was one of the most advanced bots. He had won the Loebner Prize Contest, a competition…