Key facts
- An AI chatbot generated over 100,000 words.
- The text generation was completed in 10 minutes.
- A new star, S301, was discovered near the Milky Way's central black hole.
- S301 has a highly eccentric orbit and a short orbital period.
An artificial intelligence chatbot has demonstrated its rapid content creation abilities by generating over 100,000 words in a mere 10 minutes. This feat underscores the accelerating pace at which AI models can produce substantial volumes of text. Separately, astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument on the Very Large Telescope have identified a new star, designated S301, orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole, Sgr A*. This star has an orbital period of 8.7 years and an eccentricity of 0.9832, indicating it passes closer to the black hole than any previously identified star and is close to escaping its gravitational pull. The spin of Sgr A* may influence the orbit of stars passing close to it, but observing this effect requires either stars passing extremely close or thousands of years of observation.