Microsoft researchers are using ChatGPT to instruct robots and drones

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OpenAI's ChatGPT isn't just good at generating coherent text responses to natural language prompts -- it can also play a role in human-to-robot interactions and use sensor feedback to write code for robot actions. 

Microsoft recently conducted research to "see if ChatGPT can think beyond text, and reason about the physical world to help with robotics tasks." The aim was to see if people can use ChatGPT to instruct robots without learning programming languages or understanding robotic systems. 

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The researchers note in their blog post: "ChatGPT asked clarification questions when the user's instructions were ambiguous, and wrote complex code structures for the drone such as a zig-zag pattern to visually inspect shelves."

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