Good lord, the observations in the first 90 seconds of this alone made it worth the watch. I love the idea of a toaster that does not actually provide toast, but only comments about toast, by toasting not bread, but any statements made near it.
OK, I absolutely love this idea. Now all I can think of is that, with a slightly different prompt, you could also easily make the toaster from New Vegas as well. Finally, someone came up with a cool, non-creepy use for chatgpt. Awesome project!
Love the ending, I spent many hours as a kid tormenting Dr.Sbaitso. You know it has quite a few easter eggs? such as making it angry will change the background red, and feeding it very short inputs of garbage over and over will make it reply with "Too little data, so I make big" at which point it changes the screen mode to enlarge all the fonts.
We had a Red Dwarf party circa 1996 and a housemate and I made a Talkie - he did most of the hardware (which was minimal: a speaker and a proximity and noise sensor, no cheap as chips face recognition back then) and I did all the software on my Amiga. It just played the original show's responses, of course, but there was a bit of structure in the randomisation. Like you, we preferred the original design, but unlike you, we didn't find a Smeg - we just found an old similar chrome toaster at a thrift store and used that. ^_^
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I'm amazed that the BBC allowed the uncensored smeg insult back in 1988. I'm guessing that the Light Entertainment controller for BBC 2 didn't know it's meaning. Meanwhile me and my friends enjoyed the pseudo-rude word along with the irreverent humour. It wasn't quite The Young Ones but it did fill the gap left by that show. I don't know if the word was widely understood in the UK back then. We knew it and it's it's etymological roots but it wasn't part of our daily vocabulary, well not before 1988. For me it never had the same feeling as other pejoratives that were more commonly used. Great project. I've seen other devices that push and pull data to the cloud and they too suffer from the same lag. I don't know if this will be solved by faster networking or by increasingly powerful embedded computing. I wonder if the lag could be reduced by offloading the listening functionality to a discrete unit that passes each word back to the Pi. That way the words can be sent to the AI faster. I'm guessing that currently the software appends 'reply like a toaster' type suffix to the voice input and then sends a fully formed sentence to the AI. It would take a bit of programming to allow the AI or API to recombine the words into a sentence, but it would cut out quite a bit of the lag.
Still very few people understand where smeg comes from (and the writers still deny officially, as far as I know) Amazingly, the problem with lag and interruptions already seem to be solved, since this was posted. Was listening to Hard Fork podcast yesterday about a Golden Gate Bridge bot, that sounded perfect for this.
This machine and the Red Dwarf one have a dim cousin on The Max Headroom Show: 20 Minutes Into The Future: Edison wakes up in his apartment and his coffee machine is chirping COFFEE BEANS! COFFEE BEANS! COFFEE BEANS! at him...
