S8 Ep1133: Bob Zimmerman explains why AI is currently inadequate for counting lunar craters, failing to meet human accuracy standards. He also highlights the discovery of a potential black hole in Omega Centauri, discusses the desolate nature of Mars's Jezero Crater
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Bob Zimmerman explains why AI is currently inadequate for counting lunar craters, failing to meet human accuracy standards. He also highlights the discovery of a potential black hole in Omega Centauri, discusses the desolate nature of Mars's Jezero Crater, and notes the mysterious, unexplained "spokes" appearing in Saturn's rings. (4)
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| 1:24.6 | this is a story having to do with AI. You know, AI is the hot thing. It's going to take over everything. It's going to make life easy. We'll be able to just sit at home, peel our grapes and have people and AI fan us. It's going to land on the moon before China and Russia. That's what it's going to do everything. AI is just wonderful. Well, some scientists took AI. |
| 1:45.9 | One of the things they thought AI would be really useful for is counting craters. |
| 1:50.1 | They count craters on planets because the number of craters tells you, can tell you a great deal about the age of the surface. |
| 1:58.2 | They know the general crater count rate of the whole solar system |
| 2:02.8 | throughout its history from the moon, which never had anything to block craters. So it gets a very |
| 2:08.2 | good count. And so they use that on other planets. And if you see a surface that doesn't have a lot |
| 2:13.3 | of craters, you can actually get a pretty good rough idea of how old it is. It's not very old. |
| 2:18.2 | And so credit counting is really, really important, but it's tedious and time consuming for |
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