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Mathematics and computation

What does ChatGPT really know about physics?

31 Mar 2023

Sidney Perkowitz explores what everyone’s favourite new talk partner has to say about physics

Concept of AI chatbot on a mobile phone
Tread carefully ChatGPT has lots of answers – but they’re not always right. (Courtesy: iStock/Thapana Onphalai)
The art of conversation may be dead, but you wouldn’t know it from the attention being paid to Cha

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Sidney Perkowitz is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, US. His latest book is Science Sketches: the Universe from Different Angles
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