Adoption of Sanskrit by NASA Aims to Change the Language Gap

Sanskrit is being adopted by NASA

Sanskrit has always been an important language in intellectual communities. Despite its ancient origin, the language has some amazing characteristics that are considered helpful in different fields. It is also used for therapy sessions in psychology and for spiritual remissions. But its recent involvement with artificial intelligence is an honor proving its power for being a valuable course of literature.

The grammar also makes Sanskrit suitable for machine learning and even artificial intelligence. For historians and regular folks, the possibility of using Sanskrit to develop artificially intelligent machines is inspiring because it exploits the past innovatively to deliver solutions for the future.

NASA Sanskrit relation is not new. It all began in 1985 when a NASA associate scientist published a research paper in the spring issue of Artificial Intelligence magazine. (Volume 6 Number 1). The name of the scientist was Rick Briggs who submitted his research entitled Vedic Science- 'Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence.'

The article argued about Natural languages being the best option to be converted into the computing program for robotic control and Artificial Intelligence technology. The research focuses on Sanskrit among the pool of many human languages, explaining that it is one of the most suitable ones for computing techniques. Although a detailed discussion about this research paper is due in the article onwards, here is a summary in Rick Briggs' own words derived from the same journal.

NASA had been researching this matter for more than two decades. A lot of money, time, and resources had been invested. The outcomes favor the integration of a language that can be converted into machine computing to enhance Artificial Intelligence efficiency. The phrase above indicates NASA's intense interest in Sanskrit and the research is authentically done by NASA over many levels. However, the paper was published in 1985 which is almost more than 20 years ago, yet it is a common fact that NASA's research is often prolonged over decades to derive official results.

Currently, NASA is also working on Artificial Intelligence for space communications which are clear proof that the topic of "Artificial intelligence Development" was never closed in NASA.