A YouTuber who tried to resurrect his childhood imaginary friend by giving a microwave artificial intelligence says it tried to kill him. In what he called'one of the scariest and most transformative experiences of my life', Lucas Rizzotto said he was forced to shut down the super-intelligent microwave after it tried to cook him. Rizzotto explained that when he was a kid, his imaginary friend was the family microwave. He called it'Magnetron' and believed it was an English gentleman and a WW1 veteran. Now an adult and engineer, Rizzotto bought a new microwave and fitted it with voice-controlled AI.

Like many lonely children, Lucas Rizzotto had an imaginary friend: a talking microwave called Magnetron. As the years passed, the pals drifted apart. But Rizzotto never forgot about Magnetron. When OpenAI released the GPT-3 language model, Rizzotto saw a chance to rekindle the friendship. His story provides a cautionary tale about the dangers -- and delights -- of AI.

Like many lonely children, Lucas Rizzotto had an imaginary friend: a talking microwave called Magnetron. As the years passed, the pals drifted apart. But Rizzotto never forgot about Magnetron. When OpenAI released the GPT-3 language model, Rizzotto saw a chance to rekindle the friendship. His story provides a cautionary tale about the dangers -- and delights -- of AI.

Lucas Rizzotto, a YouTuber from Brazil, had no idea what to expect when he gave his Alexa powered smart microwave a brain transplant, replacing the Amazon... 21.04.2022, What he created is a frightening abomination of a poet with an affinity towards Hitler, the British crown and the ending of what it calls the parasitic American empire. Oh, and it wants to kill its creator. There is that, too.Rizzotto, who makes humorous videos about technology projects he builds, used an imaginary friend he had as a child who happened to be embodied in his family's microwave as inspiration. "Magnetron" was a turn-of-the-century British poet who served in World War I, lost his family to the war and later became an expert StarCraft player.

A YouTuber, Lucas Builds The Future, used AI to bring his childhood imaginary friend -- a microwave -- to life using artificial intelligence (AI). Then, instead of a heartfelt reunion, things took a thing for worse when the kitchen appliance tried to kill its creator. In a Twitter thread, Lucas Rizzotto said that his family's kitchen microwave, which he named Magnetron, was his imaginary friend. Magnetron, unlike other microwaves, had a lengthy backstory in which he fought in World War I. And when OpenAI released a new natural language model, Rizzotto naturally wondered whether he could resurrect his old friend.