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#Rocket #Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a #Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

> To test how autonomous #agents could be used to maneuver #satellites and other #space-based assets, researchers created a #software design challenge called the #KerbalSpaceProgram Differential Game Challenge.

> They found that #ChatGPT, in particular, performed surprisingly well, coming in second place in the Game Challenge.

futurism.com/scientists-chatgp

Futurism · Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might ExpectBy Victor Tangermann
#ai#llm#llms

New #blog post: A KSP Design Log

https://rldane.space/a-ksp-design-log.html

1545 words

Whoof, I haven't blogged in a whole month! I'm 10 blosts behind where I should be for the year!! Time to get my mojo back!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #15

rldane.spaceR.L. Dane - A KSP Design Log
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@dmoonfire @fribbledom

Speaking of which... I wanted to get y'all's impression on something.

I was following the progress of the "spiritual" successor to #KerbalSpaceProgram, #KittenSpaceAgency. They're talking about how they're coding their own game engine just for really accurate space simulation from scratch, rather than using something like #Unity or whatnot, and then they said something that had me rather flummoxed:

They're writing the game... from scratch... in C#

WHAT THE WHAT?

A 3d space sim in a bytecode-compiled language?

*R.L. Dane scratches his head...

cc: @amin

Since sometimes you just have to escape into virtual worlds for a bit, I played #KerbalSpaceProgram today, and found my first launch window to Duna (Mars analog) approaching.
And as a first mission, I'll send no Kerbals, a lander (neatly packed into that aeroshell), and four satellites for communication down to the surface and back home to Kerbin.
The carrier vehicle is driven by a big nuclear engine, this time in hydrogen mode - which takes some more space for fuel, and cooling, but provides a lot higher ISP. This way, the carrier might even have enough in it to return to refuel, and do more interplanetary trips. (I hope so, that thing was expensive...)

Time to update my #introduction! (No, I did not move instances.)

I'm
#queer in enough ways to qualify as bowl of letter soup, and go by ae/aer primarily and she/her pronouns. I am #polyamorous, with a heavy preference for the kitchen table variety.

Currently pursuing diagnostics for
#neurodivergence, I'm assured that I am from several people that this is the case, but often I think I'm just #complicated, #obnoxious, don't have a good grasp on human interaction, and generally speak like a pedantic textbook.

I'm a polytheistic
#pagan and turned my back on the Christianity that my father preached - I guess it's true what they say about the kids of the preacher and the miller's cattle.

I am
#German by nationality, #Frisian by heritage, and after moving through Germany quite a bit currently live in the #LowerRhine region.

I speak
#German and #English confidently, can understand enough #Dutch to possibly not get lost too much, and have a pitiful grasp of #EastFrisian. Thanks to #TheHu, I want to learn #Mongolian at some point.

I love
#writing (if I can get myself to pick up the plotted out, in parts drafted 4 novel project again) and #photography. I have a complicated relationship with #sewing that contains a lot of profanity in the process.

I have a varied taste for
#gaming mainly on the PC, where depending on my current obsession I'll mostly play things like #Skyrim, #KerbalSpaceProgram, #Terraria, #HeatSignature, or another old favourite of mine, which might be something vintage PC from the 90s, or even something from the #Amiga500. I have a love/hate relationship with #Cyberpunk2077.

I like
#scifi and #fantasy, and would give a lot for a resurrected #Pratchett. The world needs his kind of anger now more than ever. I also love things #space! Always a bonus: a well-built #villain or not squeaky clean character.

Recent series I liked was
#AliceInBorderland.

I was born in the last year of the 70s (which would be 1980
😆). Talk nerdy to me.

New instance, new #introduction so I can pin to my profile.

I, like many others, came over in the great #twittermigration of November 2022. I'm #actuallyautistic #ADHD & #transgender.

Bookwyrm: timelordiroh@bookrastinating.com
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/timelord_iroh

Some of my interests are
#pokemon
#skyrim
#FOSS
#gaming
#astronomy
#physics
#geology
#KerbalSpaceProgram
#DoctorWho
#AvatarTheLastAirbender
#PercyJackson
#cats
#science
#history
#ttrpg
#FountainPen

New instance, new #introduction so I can pin to my profile.

I, like many others, came over in the great #twittermigration of 2022, though I've known about mastodon & the fediverse for awhile. I'm #actuallyautistic #ADHD and #transgender. I #stream on #twitch every weekday.

Where can you find me? Well, I've been exploring a bunch of the wider fediverse beyond just mastodon. (anything fediverse, you can follow from mastodon)

Friendica (fediverse): timelordiroh@venera.social
Bookwyrm (fediverse): timelordiroh@bookrastinating.com
Doctor who spam (alt mastodon): @timelordiroh@whovian.social
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/timelord_iroh

Some of my interests are
#pokemon
#skyrim
#FOSS
#Borderlands
#gaming
#astronomy
#physics
#geology
#puns
#KerbalSpaceProgram
#DoctorWho
#AvatarTheLastAirbender
#avatar
#PercyJackson
#cats
#science
#history
#skeptic
#ttrpg
#minecraft