James Webb Space Telescope deploys world's largest mirror!

From episode: Your Weekly Tech Update EP 133 - April 6th 2020

Technology review notes that while these results are impressive, AI still has a long way to go. These systems can only figure out one game at a time right now, which it says is at odds with the skills of a human. True versatility, which comes so easily to a human infant is still far beyond AI's reach. That said, AI is already in use across industries, the lessons learned from agent 57 could help improve performance, even if human level skills aren't achievable for now. NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has fully deployed its primary mirror for the first time. Marking another milestone on the journey to space. Before all work on the next generation instrument, which is scheduled to launch sometime in 2021 was paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, technicians and engineers at the agency were going through a series of tests with the telescope before it was sent off to board the arraign 5 rocket. Now, recently in one of these tests, the space telescope successfully extended and unfolded its entire 21 foot four inch primary mirror, the largest mirror of its kind that NASA has ever built. The mirror opened up into the same configuration that it will once the telescope is in space during the test Webb's mirror was hooked up to specialized gravity offsetting equipment that simulated the zero gravity environment in space. So not only did the mirror deploy as designed, it did so in a space like environment. Demonstrating