When Furbys became the “it” toy 25 years ago, they creeped us out. These little toys spoke a language you couldn’t understand, but over time they learned to communicate in the language they heard and said some pretty personal things to you or your child. All these years later, technology has given us open source coding, artificial intelligence, warfare drones, and robots that can shoot guns. But Furbys can still creep us out. Especially when they’ve been skinned.
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i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity pic.twitter.com/jximZe2qeG
— jessica card (@jessicard) April 2, 2023
That little robot had to think about it a minute, but then went ahead and told us exactly what we did not want to hear. In the Twitter thread, Jessica Card told us how she hooked up this nightmare.
hardware:
i’m not a hardware wiz so @kenkeiter really mentored me on this!
skinned the furby, isolated the DC motor wires, soldered on male extension to plug into breadboard. hooked up an h bridge on the breadboard to the pi. control motor via python and run it when it speaks
— jessica card (@jessicard) April 3, 2023
Just because you can do it, doesn’t mean that you should. Card also referenced Roko’s basilisk, which is another dimension of terrifying. Have we already sealed out fate? -Thanks, Brother Bill!
Source: neatorama