Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide with ChatGPT
Boston Dynamics turned its robot dog into a talking tour guide using AI as seen in a somewhat unsettling video posted by Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics used OpenAI’s ChatGPT API, along with some open-source large language models (LLM) to carefully train its responses. It then outfitted the bot with a speaker, added text-to-speech capabilities, and made its mouth mimic speech “like the mouth of a puppet.”
The version speaking in a British accent and the one of a Shakespearean time traveller had me 😂 but it’s certainly a little unsettling overall.
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