Engineers added ChatGPT to a robot dog and now it can talk
It feels like a whole new world of AI is being birthed right before our eyes—perhaps prematurely, kicking and screaming as it arrives. While there are glimmers of potential in things like AI-driven NPCs(opens in new tab), there's also a lot of nappy filler like Square Enix's AI tech preview(opens in new tab) on Steam. And while some countries are scrambling to set regulations(opens in new tab) for this new technology, others are adding it to robot dogs, and it's actually pretty cute.
Spot is the famed dog robot from Boston Dynamics. We've seen Spot take care of important tasks like protecting Pompei(opens in new tab) and dancing to rock and roll(opens in new tab). It's not the first time AI has been integrated into one of these little pups(opens in new tab), but now thanks to the addition of ChatGPT and Google text-to-speech the little guys can talk.
A machine learning engineer named Santiago posted a video of a modified spot to Twitter(opens in new tab), showing some of the journey to integrating these new systems. You can see the engineers adding specific terms to Spot's dictionary to get relevant information out of it, so it's not just as simple as installing ChatGPT and hitting go.
The team can also be seen programming in yes and no gestures. While the Google default voice leaves a lot to be desired here, the little yes and no wiggles are a bit too cute for a robot that can and will definitely kill me one day.
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While looking like a cute gimmick, this addition actually has some useful implementations for Spot as is further
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