Don't try this at home.What happened when a tech enthusiast let Chat GPT become the home assistant

Home Assistants have been pushed out to wealthier populations which much glee by tech companies over the last few years. Selling the dream of dominating your home environment, by the 'master's voice', from turning on and off lights to preparing your electric car, and eventually to you home robots that will cook and clean for you, if they can ever get around to dealing with changes of floor levels. So rather than waiting for the dream to be complete and the tech companies to sell you more product, what if you could code it yourself. Well someone has tried:

'As much as we like technology, what humans love more is control and predictability. We're afraid of wild beasts with fangs, claws, and venom because we don't know how wild animals will react to us. Like the untrained, we can't risk our safety because it's difficult to protect against something that's unpredictable. Based off of some comments that I've seen in conversations around the internet and in forums, AI seems to be no different than an unpredictable beast.

It's one thing to lock GPT behind a metaphorical glass cage of a fun website or a silly app where we can enjoy it in a safe and controlled environment. But when we remove it from this metaphorical cage and set it free, and it has access to the things that you care about, to the things that make you safe, it scares us because we don't know what it will do.

I find that those of us who work on the front lines of tech or those of us who are tech enthusiasts and love exploring technology tend to be more inclined to venture down these unpredictable roads and these paths and take these type of risks. Similar to, let's say, how a trained zookeeper is able to mitigate the risk of working with wild animals, but still the danger is there, the uncertainty is always there.

Essentially, with all of that being said, I had to disable the nodes or the parts of the automations that were responsible for GPT.'

It's well worth watching the short video series this came from. And as the title says, beware of doing this at home, and be sure you don't ever try this out on a City!

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