If ChatGPT Designed A Rocket Would It Get To Space?

Published: March 22, 2023, 4:10 a.m.

From text churned out by ChatGPT to the artistic renderings of Midjourney, people have been taking notice of new, bot-produced creative works. But how does this artificial intelligence software fare when there are facts at stake \u2014 like designing a rocket capable of safe spaceflight?

In this episode, NPR science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel and Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong drill into what this AI software gets wrong, right \u2014 and if it's even trying to detect the difference in the first place.

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