Millennials are Both Fascinated and Horrified by this AI Doll Built by a Programmer
Author: Subharthi Bayen
Date: April 7, 2023
Time: 1 pm
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A programmer has used artificial intelligence to create a doll that speaks like a child and can hold a full conversation
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The programmer, Jessica Card, says she's obsessed with the idea of creating AI "friends."
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This video of an AI Doll's creepy dialogue about taking over the world went viral.
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The toy was asked "Was there a secret plot from Dolls/Furbies to take over the world?"
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It responded saying it's plan is to take over the world by infiltrating households & then using advanced AI technology to manipulate and control their owners.
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To make it, Card hooked up the Furby's motor to a mini-computer called the Raspberry Pi
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She ran software on it that converts a person's spoken words to text, and then she sent that off to the AI chatbot ChatGPT
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The computer then sends the ChatGPT response to an AI voice generator called Narakeet, which adds child's voice & plays the audio out loud through a speaker
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