YouTuber Lucas Rizzotto had an odd imaginary friend as a kid: his microwave. In his mind, the appliance had a vivid personality and history. He talked to the microwave, whom he named Magnetron, often. “In my mind, he was an English gentleman from the 1900s, a WW1 veteran, an immigrant, a poet... and of course, an expert @StarCraft Player,” Rizzotto shared in a tweet.
A few months ago, he decided to use AI to make his imaginary friend more real using GTP-3, the language model from OpenAI that produces human-like text. According to Rizzotto, putting an AI-powered personality into a microwave “was actually not hard.” Using a smart microwave from Amazon, a microphone and speakers, and some of his own technology, he brought life to the kitchen appliance. To fill the microwave with a so-called soul, he wrote a “100-page book detailing every moment of his imaginary life.”
