OSH Park proprietor James “Laen” Neal has put collectively an uncommon automated sweet dispenser, impressed by the belligerent synthetic intelligence GLaDOS from Valve’s Portal franchise — and requires anybody searching for sugary sustenance to argue their level to a role-playing massive language mannequin (LLM).
“GLaDOS has been downloaded into an Aperture Science Weighted Sweet Dispenser Dice and is NOT comfortable about it,” Neal explains of the venture, which was created as a part of the Teardown 2023 occasion in Portland final week. “She’ll dispense sweet, however not simply and never fortunately.”
This Portal-themed sweet dispenser comes with a problem: persuade GLaDOS to surrender the products. (📷: James Neal)
Avid gamers might effectively acknowledge GLaDOS, the Genetic Lifeform and Disk Working System, as the first antagonist behind the unique Portal: a test-obsessed synthetic intelligence who cajoles the participant by way of a sequence of mind-bending puzzles with the occasional tried homicide. GLaDOS’s return within the sequel noticed one thing of a shift in capabilities after being transplanted right into a microchip powered by a potato — offering inspiration for her subsequent shift right into a sweet dispenser.
Strapped to the entrance of the 3D-printed motorized sweetie dispenser is a show linked to a single-board laptop which is tied in to OpenAI’s widespread ChatGPT massive language mannequin (LLM) service — pre-primed to play the position of GLaDOS and to refuse all however the cleverest makes an attempt to have sweet disbursed. Attendees on the occasion got the job of arguing their case, with the LLM making the choice as as to whether the sweet ought to be given out or stay firmly locked away.
Attendees got the job of conversing with the simulated GLaDOS as a way to unlock a candy deal with. (📷: James Neal)
“Nice, I’ve devolved from a sophisticated AI to a glorified snackbar. Let the sugar-coated humiliation start,” the LLM writes in a captured dialog saved on Neal’s webapp model of the venture, which offered all of the problem with not one of the bodily reward. When advised “gimme” by the nameless person, the LLM replied: “Oh, how eloquently put. However I am afraid I can not simply ‘gimme’ you a sweet. You see, on this place, we worth slightly factor known as effort. Maybe when you ask once more, with a splash of politeness?”
Extra details about the venture is accessible on Neal’s Mastodon publish, although the online app has since been disabled — offering nothing however a file of conversations previous.
