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Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)

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Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added text-to-speech capabilities, and made its mouth mimic speech “like the mouth of a puppet.”

The version speaking in a British accent and the one of a Shakespearean time traveller had me 😂 but it's certainly a little unsettling overall.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How do you mean the robots embraced the personalities?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From what I understood, a short prompt regarding a personality was provided based on which the LLM generated the lines which were converted into speech conveyed to the listener through speakers. (If some technicalities are incorrect feel free to correct me). I used "embraced" kind of metaphorically. The robots themselves didn't literally embrace a personality.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Then I agree. I guess that’s why I didn’t find this very interesting - you could strap speakers and ChatGPT to anything really, it has very little to do with the robot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's just entertaining, at least on the video.

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