🚀 ChatGPT almost became the best pilot in space

What started as a nerdy experiment turned wild when researchers told ChatGPT: “You’re an autonomous pilot. Go intercept that satellite.”
No fancy training. Just prompts + a game of Kerbal Space Program = ChatGPT ranked second in a global spacecraft autonomy competition.
The setup? Game sends mission status in plain text → ChatGPT replies with maneuver suggestions → those get translated into code.
No rocket science required… literally. And it worked! Yeah, a math-based bot took 1st place, but GPT held its own with just vibes and tokens.
Turns out, you don’t need a rocket scientist — just a really chatty AI.