On today’s show, Jim is joined by Adrian Bonar, a maker who likes to make friends, literally! Adrian has brought FriendBot with him, a conversational robot powered by Azure Cognitive Services and Open AI’s GPT-3 that wants to chat with you. This is built around a Raspberry Pi with a conference room speaker in a 3D printed case, running C# .NET code.
Learn more and build this yourself at https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot.
Build your own DALL-E picture frame! Instructions are at https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot/dalle-picture-frame. You will need an Azure Cognitive Services account, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot/cogsvc, and an Open-AI DALL-E 2 account, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot/dalle.
00:00 – Intro
00:50 – Introducing Adrian’s friend, Alex!
01:26 – We have our first conversation with the FriendBot.
02:45 – Does this pass the Turing Test?
04:41 – The technical constraints of the OpenAI API
05:21 – A look at the hardware – Raspberry Pi, conference room speaker and a 3D printed case
06:05 – The software. A small amount on the Pi, the rest in the cloud with OpenAI GPT-3
07:15 – The architecture using Azure Cognitive Services for voice to text/text to voice.
07:45 – You can see the code at https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot. It’s .NET on Linux.
10:00 – Cognitive services wake words are free! Wake words are great for privacy.
11:50 – Seeding conversations in GPT using prompt engineering
13:31 – The next project idea, a DALL-E picture frame
15:17 – “I want to put technology in front of people and have it not be intimidating, but have them understand what’s available to them”
16:05 – The DALL-E picture frame in action. https://aka.ms/lgpc/friendbot/dalle-picture-frame
16:42 – Dall-E can create images in the style of artists
17:36 – Copyright with generated images
Presented by @jimbobbennett
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