It seemed possible that AI could be used as a tool to do some basic rocket science.īut so far, ChatGPT has proven inept at reproducing even the simplest ideas in rocketry. And colleges and universities have raised fears of rampant cheating using the chatbot. The media company Buzzfeed recently announced it would use the program to create personalized quizzes. A doctor used it to generate a letter to an insurer. ![]() After its release in November, ChatGPT has been tested by human users from virtually every corner of the Internet. The latest round of artificial intelligence programs are impressive in their own right. NPR staff generated image using Midjourney The result, says Tiera Fletcher, is beautiful but too complex: "It should look a lot simpler than this." Midjourney's attempted to recreate the path of a rocket travelling from the earth and the moon. "There are some people that have a fantasy that we will solve the truth problem of these systems by just giving them more data," says Gary Marcus, an AI scientist and author of the book Rebooting AI. Independent researchers say these failures, especially in contrast to the successful use of computers for half-a-century in rocketry, reveal a fundamental problem that may put limits on the new AI programs: They simply cannot figure out the facts. 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." A quick try by NPR suggested it may have improved, but it still introduced errors into important equations and could not answer some simple math problems. Left: NASA Right: NPR staff generated imagery using Midjourney "What are those bellows for at the bottom?" asked Paulo Lozano, a puzzled rocket scientist. A real schematic of a rocket engine used by NASA's Apollo program (left), and one imagined by Midjourney's image-generating software (right).
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