Two American amateur designers specializing in artificial intelligence, Kellen Carolyn Chang and Ryan Mather, have built an innovative electronic device called a hair camera.
The body, similar to ordinary hand-held cameras, instead of creating and recording images, prints a tape on which it poetically describes the scene in front of it.
The program started when I had access to GPT-3. My first thought was to play Dungeons & Dragons with him, because I'm a cube
– says Ryan Mather TechCrunch According to his report.
It worked, but in the meantime I had another idea: to make a camera. What if I had a camera that responded to Instagram culture and produced text instead of photos… Everyone says books are better than movies, so what if we could capture moments this way?
he added.
When this was done, it turned out that the creator's speculations were not unfounded: the competing camera had upset the entire company. The heart of the device is a small Raspberry Pi computer, which analyzes the incoming image with machine vision, then converts the elements, patterns and colors visible in the image into prompts and sends them to the GPT-4 language model, from where it comes back. As an ode to the little printer built into the camera.
Final versions of the device, which straddles the border between technology and art, can be ordered from designers, who, however, are unable or unwilling to keep up with demand. If you really want one and have a bit of a desire to DIY, you can download the open source description from GitHub and build the Singing Camera yourself.
The technical approach to a private camera is not entirely unprecedented: there are, among others, Paragraphica, an AI camera without optics, or the Humane AI Pin, which replaces mobile phones, a pin-sized communication device combined with a display. Although these are only semi-professional solutions, they indicate that, depending on the capabilities of artificial intelligence, development can continue in completely different dimensions than we assume based on the development of the technology so far.
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