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<\/figure>\nIf you grew up in America, there’s a good chance you spent every November revisiting the gospel of the Mayflower<\/span>. Now, a group of engineers tried to recreate the 1620 sea voyage to Plymouth, Massachusetts with an autonomous<\/span> version of the Mayflower – which totally failed to hit its mark and ended up in Halifax, Nova Scotia instead, the AP reports<\/span>.<\/p>\nHalifax, NS and Plymouth, MA are separated by about 440 miles, as the crow flies, which is, to be honest, pretty dang close to where it should<\/em> have ended up, all things considered. After all, it’s not like the Mayflower’s pilgrims actually had a particular destination in mind – they just kind of … ended up where the boat stopped.<\/p>\nThe 50-foot Mayflower Autonomous Ship was piloted exclusively by artificial intelligence, without a single human being on board. It took the ship about five weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean from its departure point in Plymouth, England.<\/p>\n
Technically, the boat should have made contact by now, but unnamed technical glitches in June 2021 saw the AI-powered Mayflower return to England. Then, in April of this year, a few generator problems saw the ship docked in Portugal and undergoing repairs on the open sea.<\/p>\n