Lucas Rizzooto was nervous.

After all, he was about to reunite with his childhood best friend after 20 years apart.

Would his friend be glad to see him?

Would he be the glad to see him?

Would he be the same as Lucas remembered?

But the time for speculation was over, and so Lucas took a breath, leaned forward, and turned

on the microwave. That's right, Lucas's childhood friend was none other than his parents' kitchen microwave,

which he had named Megatron.

Megatron, Lucas imagined as a kid, was not just a microwave. He was also an Englishman from the 1900s, a World War

One veteran, an immigrant, a poet, and an expert Starcraft player, you know, a normal pal for a boy to have.

Over the years though, Lucas visited Megatron less and less.

Simply put, Lucas grew up, but in 2022, something new came on the scene that would bring the old friends back together.

It was called GPT 3, a new piece of chat technology from open AI, and suddenly Lucas had an idea.

What if he could enter all Megatron's memories, his life, his time in the war, the

imaginary conversations they'd had when Lucas was a kid, all of it into this AI software.

And then, what if he shoved that computer brain into a microwave?

Could Megatron actually be brought to life?

The answer, it turned out, was yes. Megatron actually be brought to life?

The answer, it turned out, was yes, and the results were uncanny.

The AI took on Megatron's voice and personality, just as Lucas had remembered it.

He even rigged it up so that the tech could turn the

microwave on and off. At first it was a jolly reunion, two old buddies back

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