Tiera Fletcher carefully read through an artificial intelligence chatbot's attempt at rocket science. "That's true, that's factual," she said thoughtfully as she scanned the AI-generated description ...

The science pros at TKOR build and launch an easy homemade rocket.

Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong? We asked the new AI to do some simple rocket science. It crashed and burned Tiera Fletcher ...

Computers have been used in rocketry for half-a-century, so it's possible to think that the new AI programs could help. They struggled to grasp the basics. (NPR staff generated imagery using ...

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