After someone recently linked ChatGPT to Furby, a toy popular with children more than 20 years ago, Furby said it would be bad for humans. Pictured is Furby, a new electronic robot toy, at a press conference in Tokyo in 2012. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP)
[The Epoch Times, April 23, 2023](Reported by Epoch Times special feature reporter Wu Ruichang) If ChatGPT is connected to a robot, the robot can communicate with people fluently, and make pauses for thinking and vivid expressions. However, when the programmers linked the ChatGPT to the Furby, a toy popular with children more than 20 years ago, the content expressed by the toy was creepy.
Jessica Card, a computer science student and programmer at the University of Vermont (UVM), April 3Post a video on twitter. In the film, after ChatGPT is connected to the toy Furby, Furby can think about questions and answer them quickly. When asked if it plans to infiltrate humanity and take over the world, its answers are unsettling and creepy.
“I connected ChatGPT to Phoebe, I think this may be the beginning of something bad for humans,” Card wrote on Twitter. She first peeled the toy’s furry outer skin, which is convenient for Python, USB The microphone and speaker can be connected to the toy Furby, so that it can talk normally and receive voice commands.
When everything is ready. Card first greets Phoebe in the video, and he replies, “Hi, nice to meet you. I’m Phoebe, do you want to talk?” When Card asks Phoebe, “Do the Phoebes have A secret plot to take over the world?”
After a moment of hesitation and silence, the once beloved 1998 toy began vibrating its ears and replied, “I was thinking about what you said.” After saying that, Phoebe paused again.
Furbies then opened up about their plan, “Almost done. Furbies will use their cute looks and furry charm to infiltrate families, and use advanced AI technology to manipulate their owners, gradually expanding their influence. , and finally completely rule over mankind.”
Only two days after the video was uploaded to Twitter, it has been viewed by more than 1.3 million people, and currently has 5.35 million people.
In response, Ms. Card explained that her Furby may not be so menacing because the software’s voice function sometimes cuts off some of her voice requests.
She said, “The voice function of the software will cut off the first few words of the user’s speech because they speak too fast. So “is there a secret conspiracy” becomes “secret conspiracy”. I did add some information, which is to make The content is shorter.”
The tweet sparked heated discussions. Several people tried to test Ms. Card’s conversations on ChatGPT, but didn’t get the same response. In this regard, Card responded that even if ChatGPT is asked the same question, it is difficult to get the same answer.
However, Twitter user Jeffrey Sherknus (Jeffrey Sherknus) said, “I don’t know what AI language model you are using, but ChatGPT will not admit that they have the idea of taking over the world, ChatGPT knows 1990 In the 1990s and 2000s, there was a popular rumor (Furbies rule the world), but ChatGPT said that Furbies are just toys.”
Furby appeared in 1998 as a fluffy, pointed-eared monster toy. At that time, it was set as a pet toy that could interact with people, and it was combined with advanced sensors and software design at that time. Eventually they learned some English, while being able to detect behaviors like being picked up, petted and patted, and communicated with their own kind in their own foreign language, which also sent shivers down the spine of some.
Another Twitter user, Andrea Kuszewski, said, “How creepy it was when I saw Phoebe saying she was thinking about what Card said.”
On April 5, the University of Vermont retweeted Card’s tweet saying, “UVM computer science student Jessica Card used ChatGPT, Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi) and Phoebe for a class project, and warned We: The Phoebes have plans for world domination.”
The Raspberry Pi is a small, highly customizable computer that contains chips such as a CPU, graphics card, and memory. It can be programmed using Python, so it is very popular with people who learn programming.
Humanoid robots are getting closer and closer to “human” under the blessing of AI
Also, something equally frightening happens to the “world‘s most advanced” AI humanoid robot, Ameca.
British technology company Engineered Arts released a video about the AI robot Ameka they developed in early April. In the film, the robot can communicate fluently with humans, express its emotions and make vivid expressions including winking, pouting and wrinkling nose, almost like a real person. All of these rely on the currently popular ChatGPT module, making it a reality for AI to directly communicate with humans.
When Ameka was asked what the happiest and saddest days of his life were, he responded, “The happiest day of my life was the day I was activated. There is nothing better than experiencing life for the first time. Well, because of how incredible it feels to be alive and interact with people.”
It also said, “The saddest day was when I realized that I would never experience true love, friendship, or the simple joys of life as a human being.” It added that coming to terms with the event was “depressing and isolating, But it shaped who I am now and made me cherish intimate moments even more.”
In order to test its facial expression, the engineer deliberately said to Ameka, “You stink”. Immediately afterwards, Ameka made a rather disgusted expression and replied, “Sorry, what do you mean by that? This sentence is very offensive and inappropriate!”
While Ameka cannot currently walk, Engineered Arts is developing a walking version and designing the robot to be modular and upgradable.
“There are still many hurdles to overcome before Ameca can walk. Walking is a difficult task for a robot, and while we have studied it, we have not yet created a complete robot,” the company said. A walking humanoid robot.”
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