Despite being stumped by simple children's games, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a spaceship, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT to "operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." To their amazement, as detailed in their paper to be published in the Journal of Advances in Space Research, they found that the large language model exceeded expectations, scoring second place inside a space simulation competition based on the popular […]