William Franzin Puts OpenAI's ChatGPT On-the-Air with a Custom Amateur Radio Interface - Hackster.io

Radio amateur William "VE4VR" Franzin has put a little artificial intelligence on the airwaves by creating a voice assistant powered by OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT -- accessible using a radio capable of Very High Frequency (VHF) transmissions. "In this case we're using a D-STAR digital voice repeater on VHF," Franzin explains of the project, "which will receive my test transmission, which is digital voice, and then that's sent over the internet to a server in a a data center which has a Northwest Digital Radio ThumbDV AMBE transcoder plugged into it. The voice is transcoded to plain digital voice, it's run through a speech-to-text engine, which is then run through ChatGPT and then all the way back, transcoded, and comes back to the radio." OpenAI launched ChatGPT last November, offering a simple webchat-like interface to its text-based generative adversarial network (GAN) technology. Type in a message, and ChatGPT replies -- mimicking understanding but, in reality, simply stringing together the statistically most-likely words you would expect from a response.