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>And of course, I integrated #GPT3 with the Microwave's API so it could still function normally as a voice-controlled microwave.

GPT3 was linked up to the API of the smart microwave so it had the ability to turn the thing on

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... the on and off switches were inputs during the training phase? I might need some proof here

Here's one of the creator's comments on the YouTube video: For those who are curious, the way that got GPT-3 to control the microwave was super clunky, but effective: I trained it to say a string with special characters whenever it wants to turn the microwave on {{ MICROWAVE ON 30 SEC }) and as we talk to each other a javascript bot is looking for those commands in the GPT-3 chat logs in real time. Whenever it finds a command, that JS bot connects to the Microwave API and triggers it to do what GPT-3 is telling it to. The reason I didn't put this in the video is that couldn't find any way to explain this that wasn't incredibly boring Imao

Also, to a comment saying How much of the dialogue is staged?? The creator replied none of it, actually! the microwave has said all of the things it said in the video. of course there's a lot leave out in editing, and the order in which he said things wasn't necessarily what's in the final video, but everything in this video was said by the microwave at some point in time.

So, I think the whole thing is more like the creator's loose and cherry picked interpretation of what happened.

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