We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned

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We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned
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We asked ChatGPT — and other new AI programs — to do fundamental rocket equations. After all, computers have been used in rocketry for decades. But when professional rocket scientists reviewed the results, they were filled with errors. Here’s why.

Computers have been used in rocketry for half-a-century, so it's possible to think that the new AI programs could help. They struggled to grasp the basics.NPR staff generated imagery using Midjourney

Fletcher is a professional rocket scientist and co-founder of Rocket With The Fletchers, an outreach organization. She agreed to review text and images about rocketry generated by the latest AI technology, to see whether the computer programs could provide people with the basic concepts behind what makes rockets fly.– the recently released chatbot from the company OpenAI – failed to accurately reproduce even the most basic equations of rocketry.

A real schematic of a rocket engine used by NASA's Apollo program , and one imagined by Midjourney's image-generating software ."What are those bellows for at the bottom?" asked Paulo Lozano, a puzzled rocket scientist.OpenAI did not respond to NPR's request for an interview, but on Monday it announced an upgraded version with"improved factuality and mathematical capabilities.

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