Galactic Compass, a compass app made by ChatGPT that points to the center of the galaxy

Businessman Matt Webb has released a compass app called `` Galactic Compass '' that points you in the direction of ``Sagittarius A*'' at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Galactic Compass on the App Store

At startup, you will be asked for permission to use location information, so tap 'Allow while using the app'.

Then, an arrow pointing to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, 26,000 light years away, was displayed. One light year is the distance that light travels in one year at a speed of 300,000 km per second, which is approximately 9.5 trillion km, so even if it moves a little, the 26,000 light years will not shrink.

If you hold the device upright, a message saying 'Device should be flat' will appear and the arrow will turn black. I feel like it has a bit of a 'compass' feel to it.

Knowing the direction of the center of the galaxy is unlikely to be of any use to most people, and it seems like it is a virtually useless app, but the point of ``Galactic Compass'' is that it uses Swift, the programming language used to create iOS apps. Mr. Webb, who doesn't know how to write, created it using ChatGPT.

With only the application development environment 'Xcode' and the version control system 'Git' installed, Mr. Webb asked ChatGPT to teach him, 'Please tell me the steps to create a new single-screen iOS application,' and began creating the application. He said he was moving forward.

The distance to the center of the galaxy, 26,000 light years, is not a fixed text, but uses the astronomical library ' SwiftAA ' to display the distance between the location of the terminal and the coordinates of the center of the galaxy.

Mr. Webb, who completed the application, commented, ``It's not bad to collaborate with a person who can't create an application and an AI that is only a year old.''