In a recent contest, teams of researchers competed to see who could train an AI model to best pilot a spaceship. The results suggest that an era of autonomous space exploration may be closer than we think.
This is the first prompt researchers used to see how well ChatGPT could pilot a spacecraft. To their amazement, the large language model (LLM) performed admirably, coming in second place in an autonomous spacecraft simulation competition.
Researchers have long been interested in developing autonomous systems for satellite control and spacecraft navigation. There are simply too many satellites for humans to manually control them in the future. And for deep-space exploration, the limitations of the speed of light mean we can't directly control spacecraft in real time.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/chatgpt-could-pilot-a-spacecraft-unexpectedly-well-early-tests-find
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Open the pod bay HAL, I’m sorry Dave I can’t do that
Why the fuck would you trust a chatbot that frequently makes shit up to do this?
Are they trying to cause an ablation cascade?
Stop. Just stop. I’m so tired of this nonsense.
Oh noes, space dot com and ChatGPT in one post, this is not going to go well.