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it's wednesday april 20th 20th. I'm Jackson Bird today. The story of a self-described mad scientist who gave a microwave the soul of his childhood imaginary friend using AI, and then it tried to kill him. Plus texting etiquette from Emily Post's great, great

grandchildren. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. It's like a modern-day Frankenstein story,

a creator focusing on AR, VR, and other cool futuristic technologies,

who literally bills himself as a full-time mad scientist, reanimated his childhood imaginary

friend inside a microwave using AI. And, well, it did not go exactly as planned.

Lucas Risotto recounted the experience on Twitter and YouTube, where, frankly, I'm surprised

it doesn't have more views because the production value alone is ingenious.

Seriously, even though I'm about to tell you the main beats of what happened, because

it is very cool and interesting, I highly suggest going to watch the whole video afterwards to get more context and the overall experience.

Watch it, subscribe to Lucas, share it around.

I feel like he is making the exact kind of fusion of art and science that we need to bridge the gaps between all of the gung-ho

futuristic tech types and everyone else who doesn't really get it yet.

But anyways, here is what happened in the video.

Lucas bought a smart microwave, an Alexa kind that responds to voice controls, but modded it

with Raspberry Pi as well as a speaker and a microphone so that the microwave would be able to both listen and talk back. He then trained it using GPT3, OpenAI's natural language model that's been used for all kinds of serious and wacky experiments. GPT3 uses deep learning to produce human-like text in what is

essentially a similar way to how autocorrect on your phone learns some of your word choices over

time. Lucas didn't want any generic old text coming from his microwave, though. He decided to

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