Apr 04, 2023 12:00:00

Furby who talks with ChatGPT and Raspberry Pi is born, and it is intense white that he is aiming for complete control of mankind

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Furby ', which hit from the end of the 1990s to the beginning of the 2000s, is a popular toy for hackers, as it can be put in a microwave oven , modified into an organ , hacked and said your favorite words. . Programmer Jessica Card has posted a movie showing how he connected a USB microphone and Raspberry Pi to this Furby and remodeled it so that ChatGPT can speak in human language.

ChatGPT, Raspberry Pi-Powered Furby Plans World Domination | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-pi-furby-nightmare

You can see Furby modified by Mr. Card from the following. In order to connect with the Raspberry Pi, all the cute fur has been removed, leaving only the top of the neck exposed.

i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity pic.twitter.com/jximZe2qeG
— jessica card (@jessicard) April 2, 2023

Furby, who is only in the state from the neck up, uses a USB microphone and Python's speech recognition module to allow users to talk to Furby. The voice picked up by the USB microphone is converted to text by OpenAI's Whisper and input as a ChatGPT prompt. Then, the mechanism of converting ChatGPT's answer with Narakeet and playing it with a USB powered speaker.

for those asking how I made it!

python, usb mic & usb speaker on a rasp pi.

code:
py speech recognition lib for audio, then @OpenAI 's whisper library for speech->text, then chatgpt, text->speech w/ @narakeet for voice ai, then play it through speaker with pydub playback
— jessica card (@jessicard) April 3, 2023

In addition, Furby's internal motor wiring is connected to Raspberry Pi via a breadboard, and its movement is controlled by a program written in Python. When the sound is played, the mouth, eyes and ears are moved by the control of the motor controller .

hardware:

i'm not a hardware wiz so @kenkeiter really mentored me on this!

skinned the furby, isolated the DC motor wires, soldered on male extension to plug into breadboard. hooked up an h bridge on the breadboard to the pi. control motor via python and run it when it speaks
— jessica card (@jessicard) April 3, 2023

When Mr. Card asked Furby, ``Was there a secret plan for Furby to conquer the world?'' After that, I'm thinking about a plan to manipulate the owner with advanced AI and control humanity until it completely dominates.'