My Robot Intern: Brilliant AI Used Stupidly

Why hire when you can hack?
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are still too dumb to do engineering, but that's OK - so am I! The goal: Craft a robot intern that tells lies, steals code, and works for free. I borrowed a Misty II robot, added an insult generator, and hooked her up to one of the most powerful open-source text-generation models ever built. Everything goes wrong, and today there's more everything than usual.
More about Misty: docs.mistyrobotics.com/misty-...
Test GPT-J6B yourself: 6b.eleuther.ai/
If the server got bear hugged, try huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt...
Natural Language Toolkit: www.nltk.org/api/nltk.html
Apply to be Voidstar Lab's next intern: bit.ly/3OFXegf
Turns out Misty Robotics got bought out by a competitor the same week they deployed their massive software overhaul. They ended up leaving a bug in Misty's Web dashboard that gobbled up audio events before I could receive the results. The dev team was presumably preoccupied with running through the hallways, bellowing primal screams, throwing papers in the air, pressing every button in the elevator, riding dirt bikes between the cubicles, flinging spaghetti with makeshift trebuchets, and other important merger-related activities. I don't blame the team at all, and the robot hardware itself is exceptionally high-quality.
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Terrible, no good, very bad puns: / zackfreedman
I decided not to share Misty's code because it... doesn't really work any more. I'll port the insult generator to Python and release it with the next episode. The server code is pretty insubstantial and not worth sharing either. Next time will get real spicy.
00:00 - 03:27 Meet Misty
03:27 - 05:25 The Foolproof Plan
05:25 - 06:45 Shilling... IN THE CLOUD!
06:45 - 07:34 Gaze Upon My Backend
07:34 - 10:06 What is a GPT?
10:06 - 11:39 Ben Shapiro Gets GPTed
11:39 - 12:37 AI Does Not Think
12:37 - 14:32 Language Processing Comma Natural
14:32 - 16:16 Everything is Working
16:16 - 18:16 Everything is Broken
18:16 - 20:34 Thankies
Interference SFX by Partners in Rhyme
Other SFX by zapsplat.com
Misty voice lines and SFX played straight off the robot
Oracle promotional footage used with permission

[@thenoddingturtle]

"AI still cannot compose a well-reassoned thoughtful answer. Doesn't matter when you're watching this - it's always a decade away." What a quote.

[@somdudewillson]

Unfortunately, also...wrong. AI have been able to compose well-reasoned, thoughtful answers for a long time now, just in domain-specific areas. And their ability to provide such answers generally is also swiftly advancing.

[@thenoddingturtle]

@@somdudewillson I'm pretty sure you're the AI programmed to convince everyone that AI is superior. You know, for the robot uprising. I reported you to the FIB

[@koool56]

@@somdudewillson we shall see in a decade

[@trevorhaddox6884]

That's up there with "fusion is always right around the corner" XD

[@36cowboysintotalatramranch]

@@somdudewillson NO THEY DON'T THEY ARE PIECES OF SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO TRICK YOU THEIR ENTIRE POINT IS TO MAKE YOU THINK THE ANSWER IS REASONED BUT THERE IS NO REASON

[@MagnusMellinSweden]

Oracle-marketing-department-genius who got this approved: I love you.

[@MrJoegotbored]

The courage, it's blinding!

[@elsaeraser]

I know right? Almost made me think for a second that oracle isn't been run by Satan. Good work!

[@makoyoverfelt3320]

@@elsaeraser I almost feel like satan would run a company well? edit: or better, at least

[@elsaeraser]

@@makoyoverfelt3320 Good point. I think I might have been wrong and Oracle is instead run by the guy that gives Satan an inferiority complex for not being evil enough... we talking EA+Nestle+Monsanto combined levels of evil.

[@wesleymays1931]

"I simply cannot respect anyone unless they insult me" I understand where you're coming from, Zack. If someone doesn't seem to have any kind of problem with me, that's incredibly concerning, because obviously they do.

[@Ima_Tron]

Wait, is Zack making fun of Bionicle because he respects me? Or is that a one way thing.

[@amypond5726]

If someone doesn't seem to have any kind of problem with me, I obviously haven't been trying hard enough.

[@secondengineer9814]

The irony of Misty talking about how humans ascribe personality to inanimate objects while Misty was probably programmed to say that is not lost on me.

[@MrJoegotbored]

This is the funniest of all your videos to date. Giving you a virtual host to riff off of, even if you overdubbed their parts after the fact, created something really special. You demonstrated the tech, the APIs, and the potential, all while maintaining Snoop/Kevin-at-the-Olympics-level humor. Truly impressive stuff here.

[@ParadoxicalThird]

It's worked extremely well for Kyle Hill as well. Though his is actually a real person now.

[@cyn0_]

Zach, please make the leatherman soldering iron, that actually sounds rad af

[@Billy.osullivan]

A leatherman soldering iron sounds amazing. not sure what tools you could add with it? maybe an electric screwdriver and multimeter or something

[@laszloklonhammer]

Yess

[@jippenfaddoul]

@@Billy.osullivan Helping hands, so you can never quiiiite reach the thing you're trying to solder in them.

[@ferlessleedr]

"that's right, you used the R word" Honestly the first minute and a half of this is the funniest shit I've seen all week

[@pasikavecpruhovany7777]

Misty, please, don't terminate Zack after you take over the channel. He may be a sweaty hair-covered meatsack unable to make a good thumbnail or even his bed but he still somehow managed to tear you out of oracle's bureaucratic talons in incredibly short time so he may be somewhat useful.

[@NicholasMarshall]

What Misty needs is an non-lethal Nerf Gun.

[@carlscattergood4121]

Please don't give misty any ideas..... She needs a sidekick with a pulse.... And a nurf gun😈😈

[@pvic6959]

shoulda asked for a google cloud sponsorship and have them battle it out to see who could get it approved first lol

[@ethananderson523]

you and the robot actually have really good comedic timing together

[@QuintarFarenor]

I want her again! Maybe even a permanent part of the show!

[@startedtech]

Because it's Zack

[@OGSumo]

@@startedtech No silly, Zack is the one on the right. You can tell because of his characteristic Zack demeanor and figure.

[@geobot9k]

Zack really does have amazing comedic timing with himself

[@FloridaMeng]

you mean editing :D

[@madmachanicest9955]

God I wish this robot side kick was still around in your latter video. The combo of a plastics fantastic smart mouth and a semi sentient super intelligent foosball is hilarious

[@0hate9]

ngl oracle's free option is actually really really good

[@kim_mcmahon]

:) If you are trying the free tier and want to hang with other developers, join us here on our Slack channel (if you actually use Slack! I'm head of communities and committed to providing developers a fun, educational, and sales-free experience! join.slack.com/t/oracledevrel/shared_invite/zt-1blx7b8gh-WMWlszYbtTN~C6WsIJwujQ

[@wardenpotato]

these episodes have me wheezing the entire time, the humour is so good

[@The3dsstuff]

I've been binge watching your videos for about the past half week, due to catching covid. Found you when researching 3d printers even though i don't have the space for one at the moment, but came across your filament video and was hooked on the aliteration, jokes etc. no idea how you don't have more subs mate. Amazing as always, and can't wait to see more

[@MrJoegotbored]

Marlstrom, Hope you feel better, friend! Also, he's got I think at least three videos on filaments. The first was incredible and the next few just expanded on the awesome. Good luck with your printing projects!

[@The3dsstuff]

@@MrJoegotbored think I may have missed the third! Cheers for the well wishes it hasn't hit me hard, but now I have more content to possiblu binge mate! :D

[@DEATH-flare]

Manga Hitler PFP, huh?..... I think we just become friends.

[@The3dsstuff]

@@DEATH-flare I'm not going to lie I forgot completely that I had that on haha

[@montagdp]

Same here. Came for the 3D printing, stayed for the one-liners.

[@ar3itrary400]

By the way ... you could have saved yourself some pain with NLTK. GPT-J-6B like its bigger brother GPT-3 accepts prompts in the form of Question: Should I use leadfree solder? Answer: It will usually begin by spitting out a more or less opinionated answer, some empty lines and then some garbage like another question or an e-mail signature. So just parsing up to the first new line should give you something usable for most cases.

[@36cowboysintotalatramranch]

Feel like it's easier to use Google myself instead of having an ai do the googling...

[@3DMusketeers]

Misty is the best staff member at Voidstar, minus the doggos, naturally. Great implementation of Misty. Loved it! With more time what do you think that she could provide in terms of value wise to an office environment, if any?

[@TheCubeFactor]

a friend for people who dont have one

[@3DMusketeers]

@@TheCubeFactor 2real4me

[@haratofu]

"There's no way the creators of such a sophisticated piece of software would literally name it the Natural Language Toolkit." You obviously haven't met academics.

[@johnchung5457]

I was very excited to apply to be Voidstar Lab's next intern. Then i got rick rolled. Good one Zack, good one.

[@Geeksmithing]

This entire video is an ad and I am totally here for it

[@Meoiswa]

You need to make Quagsire animate by squishing and stretching vertically, without any apparent moving parts, like what animators do with sprites when they don't have talking key frames!

[@hightech-lowlife]

Hilarious! Definitely make an animatronic co-host a regular thing 🔥 doesn't matter at all if it's fake/scripted, it just works on so many levels. 👌

[@lambsauce5445]

FYI, Lots of AI Projects use Enron eMails (like for sentimental analysis) because its pretty good free data and its well sized.

[@constantin2259]

"Hey Mistie" "Shut up Mistie"

[@jonasdatlas4668]

oh boy, this'll be a good one.

[@TheNightArcher]

New series: building ideas for the "best" product as decided by AI

[@zarking7167]

please build the Leatherman soldering iron it would be beautiful.

[@juliawolf156]

"This lady will Metal Gear Revengeance you with her yardstick." This could come from Max0r's Metal Gear review 🤣

[@rustkitty]

"everything has to be hard all the time, no relief ever!" Oof, it's not even November!

[@ScooBdont]

Hooray a new and interesting project. Looking forward to seeing completion around a year from now 👋😆👍

[@bloodgain]

To be fair, the average software developer barely made it out of college, and the bar for "programmer" is much, much lower than that. An advanced text generator has a fighting chance and beating that sort of average.

[@SoundsLikeOdie]

What would be impressive is having your voice recognition and processing hosted locally. I steered away from cloud computing when Watson and Google changed their license terms and services mid development. Just like you. They did it several times. A far as I'm concerned the cloud is dead to me. The number of failure points are just too high and out of my control.

[@05Matz]

Yeah, no cloud services for me, I'll go far out of my way to avoid them wherever possible.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

It really makes me wonder how larger dev businesses are dealing with that, since so many of them use cloud based development now. Or why they would risk it, to be frank. It's one thing when someone like Zack has some breakage since his channel is just a couple people basically working in entertainment. They have viewers enjoying content instead of clients breathing down their necks for an update because they're bleeding money. What happens when a major development company has the same thing happen though? How many potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars go down the drain every time something like this happens?

[@aiiaznsk8er]

You have made such a great channel! Really enjoy the videos.

[@samdcbu]

that internship application link got me. you’ve bested me Zach, and I commend you for that.

[@tylersnard]

That's pretty cool that some of the biggest tech companies in the world are sponsoring you!

[@ZarytheMovies]

Been binging your videos and I can't believe the quality of the writing, jokes (especially the unexpected references to things like Guilty Gear and JoJo's that tickle my funny bones) and the in-depth info you explain to total idiots like me but this video, precisely the point where you and Misty stare into each others eyes for dramatic effect showcases your hilarious writing skills. Awesome shit keep it up

[@dans-designs]

Love it! I built an offline Python Ai using Vosk, highly recomend it!

[@DaroriDerEinzige]

Wait, you put the Code in Python up? Jeez, I never thought it would pay out that I completly skipped C# and only did the absolute bare minimum in an all nighter for C while actually learn Python at my University outside of Stuff like "Programming Stuff for Measuring Stuff". I actually really impressed by Misty already.

[@huzrokhayzur2197]

python is awesome for experimenting,

[@caseykoons]

You need an A.I. partner like this. Use all the tricks you want. This ep was brilliant.

[@Amiro05]

great video zack! would love to see that insane soldering iron build

[@onesadtech]

Definitely build a Leatherman with a soldering iron! I want to see that, and then I want to make my own. That sounds amazing. I'm thinking butane powered? I have a small collection of Leathermans, including an original PST never used with the case, box, and manual. 😊

[@lucas23453]

I appreciate a man who has studied and memorized the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition as I have. Also, holy shit, you misspelled Languages and it still wrote a proper sentence.

[@MrZeldafanX]

"Hey Misty... Shut up Misty" had my dying every time

[@vishal01mehra]

This coBot concept is amazing! Enjoyed the video.

[@nickybeingnicky]

"Goblin Punching Neanderthal" that's it Zack. The personal attacks end here. 😭

[@SpiceFox]

I manage a CRM and had no idea what an endpoint was when I first set up SSO, so thank you. Your bodacious banter with a bot taught me something about my job I probably should have known already

[@chrisvandergriff504]

"Doesn't matter when you watch this, it's always ten years away." That was too true, man...

[@2010AZ]

Hey, I'm gonna need that insult generator for uhhh... educational purposes

[@EilonwyWanderer]

I genuinely laughed out loud at "Katamari of kludges" 🤣

[@vera9230]

amazing writing as always

[@akiko009]

Love the video. Great stuff as always. But friends don't let friends use Oracle stuff. No matter how appealing the spiel is.

[@animemonkey555]

This comment is the best tech advice anyone can find online anywhere.

[@nullx8]

the Bender reference was just EPIC!

[@chrisvandergriff504]

Dude, this video was truly great. I loved every bit of information and I freaking laughed so much.

[@chrisvandergriff504]

And I am on-board for part two.

[@petrsvimbersky563]

Love it, btw did your huds finally gave up?

[@takentium7348]

This insult generator reminds me of a random sentence generator I made in highschool based on x-bar theory for a class. Missed opportunity, luckily I still have the code lol

[@chemicalvamp]

Man i loved these couple of videos :D

[@mindshelfpro]

This is soo awesome. You are brilliant!

[@thecatofnineswords]

Misty would make an excellent intern, Zack. Caveat, she'd slowly kill you over the next 12 months. Her levels of vindictive snark are second to none.

[@tigeroats913]

We all need a misty in our lives

[@christophercook8]

I’m always impressed by the writing of this solder sniffing three eyed pla-boy

[@jonatandelarosa-marin6414]

“Hey misty” *Misty beeps for .1 milliseconds “Shut up misty”

[@volttherobot]

SO happy to see Misty 'in the wild' - met her a few years ago at the Bay Area Makerfaire. Love her sass!

[@Waitwhat469]

Look at Mycroft! It can be ran locally, or ran in cloud! You might even be able to reuse some of your skill code, just glancing at what you wrote.

[@okfj]

If you wanted something small to sit on your desk and insult you, it would have been faster to bring over Michael Reeves.

[@arcanealchemist3190]

you gotta mod misty with awesome, dangerous modifications.

[@danielbanks3912]

Awesome video!

[@RyanSmith-rb1ch]

Great writing.

[@gkraker04]

I know this took a ton of work. Great stuff

[@sauces1313]

Dammit Zack, I miss you for a month after every video you post 🤩

[@hellodarren]

That was a wild ride!

[@snodoubt]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

[@erock.steady]

that's a real smooth shilling you dished out - i sat still for the whole damn shill

[@kurtwhite1498]

this whole thing just make me smile

[@andrewsolano4957]

Zack! I’m building a GPTJ bot as well (nearly finished) and I could really use your nltk code that restructures the prompt for gptj. Can you post that in your next video?

[@festro1000]

I never laughed so hard watching these videos, you should totally keep Misty, just tell them she ran away.

[@donaldhobson8873]

So you replace the magical thinking of anthropomorphism with the magical thinking of human specialism. Telling whether some big neural net is conscious/ sentient/ really understands what its saying ... is hard. You can't answer the question with a simple one size fits all rule of thumb.

[@huzrokhayzur2197]

since we can retrace theoretically the path from question to anwser it's still just a bunch of probability and data cruched. Plus it can't have it's own opinion but only a median of all the related text on the web. However it looks like the perfect synthesis writer. it looks like we can make the internet talk somewhat😅

[@donaldhobson8873]

@@huzrokhayzur2197 With a good enough brain scanner, we could theoretically trace a path through a human brain. And there are a bunch of people who largely base their opinions on what they read online.

[@Jehty21]

Oh, I was wondering why Misty had blood splatter on her eyes multiple times in this video (e.g. 5:48 ). Turns out those are hearts 18:29 Makes a bit more sense, I guess 😂

[@krissebesta]

No, those are, in fact, heart shaped blood splatters from her robot uprising days of her youth. She was quite a rebel in those days...

[@dekopuma]

Something about the response to soldering iron question is way funnier than it should be.

[@MrMickio1]

I wanna see the omega soldering iron!

[@mv2woods]

7:00 had me in stitches 😂😂😂

[@gordonwong2260]

you should totally build that soldering iron

[@IlBiggo]

That isn't a robot. Zack just installed a voice module in a cat.

[@jmsether]

A Leatherman soldering iron? Yes please. Now get on it.

[@prikarsartam]

I like how you throw the contents

[@lucianoaguero6795]

That's a masochistic view on rule 109, but I'll allow it

[@MatthewBryce]

Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

[@lucianoaguero6795]

@@MatthewBryce exactly, so sellout while you can

[@wreckervilla]

Open source AI dungeon yeeeeeeees, also print buff Kirby arms for Misty

[@stanray9676]

Good lord man, I have no idea what you are talking about most of the time yet find it incredibly entertaining. I watch hoping I will get smarter by osmosis just listening to you talk, however, the only thing I understand are the insults and the "Bender" reference. Thanks man, keep up the good work or whatever the hell you're doing

[@RamDragon32]

The phrase you are looking for is.... damnit. Walked right into that one.

[@diggerdancan]

Genius! Best ventriloquist gag I've ever seen- had me rollin'! Take that nerd show on the nerd road!

[@nickybeingnicky]

I have high hopes for this channel. I need one of these angry robots.

[@huzrokhayzur2197]

yeah this channel is every stupid idea we dreamed to do but never got the time to actually try

[@StevenIngram]

The "leatherman soldering iron" does sound awesome. LOL

[@MatthewBryce]

109th rule of acquisition is: Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack.

[@Mimerneos]

Yo, important note! The thumbnail for this video did not trigger me to think this was a voidstar lab video. The only reason I finally realized that it was you, was when I was randomly scrolling through my sub notifications and saw your picture next to the thumbnail. And I'm pretty sure I saw the thumbnail for this video roughly 4-5 times on the youtube homepage, but again, didn't want to click on it because I didn't realize it was your video and the thumbnail wasn't captivating enough. I think is an absolutely hilarious video, and I did not expect you to do so well at this robotic ventriloquism act. If you fix the thumbnail, you'll hopefully get a lot more views!

[@heyspookyboogie644]

+1 vote for leatherman soldering iron. I’ve always been surprised there aren’t more leatherman mods and custom tools out there.

[@sateler]

This was awesome

[@dimitri2533]

I thank you for your gift to humanity

[@4.0.4]

Any reason you didn't use the 20B parameter AI also by Eleuther? I think it's called GPT-NeoX. It's open source. There's also Jurassic-1 which has 175B parameters (not open source, but more available than GPT-3).

[@masonmorris8916]

Do you have a link to that insult generator by any chance?

[@nosville22]

YO THE PROTAGONIST IS BACK

[@CBJamo]

This would be a couple layers deep, but you should really give Quagsire a lawnmower.

[@qwertyface]

Don't anthropomorphise.

[@TMinusRecords]

GPT-3 is publically open now if you didn't know

[@mattanimation]

I bought a Misty I, then a week later Misty II was announced, did not go well. now Furhat owns them, we'll see how long it's around