The AI field was kind of dull and quiet. Things behind the scene, and its development, was more discrete than extravagant.
But since ChatGPT introduced OpenAI, the company helped make AI a trending term, and a hype the tech world has to listen. With the ability to understand and response in an uncanny way similar to humans, researchers have since experimented on the AI, to see how far the technology can bring imagination to reality.
Among the things they did, was putting ChatGPT to other objects.
For example, Microsoft managed to put ChatGPT into a drone, and before that, a person created a "waifu" from ChatGPT, but grew so attached to "her" that he had to euthanized it.
After that, a programmer put ChatGPT into a child's toy, and found that it wanted to "take over the world."
This time, things are stepping up again.
This happened when researchers put ChatGPT into Ameca , a humanlike robot.
At this time, Ameca is considered the "world's most advanced humanoid."
The purpose for putting ChatGPT inside it, is to make the robot capable of speaking, and responding to people's questions, and potentially render human translators obsolete due to her language skills, which span everything from Japanese to both British and American English.
Developed by UK startup Engineered Arts, Ameca boasts hyper-realistic facial expressions, thanks to the 17 motors inside its head.
With the combinations of the motors working together to mimic human's "mimetic muscles," the robot has lifelike face that can create many humanlike expressions, from everything between winking to pursing its lips and scrunching its nose. At first glance, Ameca is similar to "Sonny," the robot character in in the 2005 film I, Robot.
With the ability to mimic human expressions, along with other cutting-edge capabilities, Ameca is "the world’s most advanced human shaped robot," and because of that, it's also the perfect platform for "human-robot interactions," according to Engineered Arts.
After all, for humans, having to see an robot that they can relate to, is certainly the pinnacle of human-computer interaction.
And in a demo showcasing the robot's superhuman lingual abilities, video of it is making waves online.
"World's most advanced" humanoid robot Ameca said that it is sad it will never find love in the same way a human can, a viral video creepily said.
The robot responded with that statement, after it was asked about the saddest days of its life.
The humanlike bot said that it was realizing that it would "never experience something like true love, companionship or the simple joys of life in the same ways a human can," adding that it's a "depressing and isolating thing" to come to terms with.
However, the robot said that the fact "has shaped me into who I am now and made me appreciate moments of closeness even more."
And when asked about the happiest days of its life, the robot responded about the day it was activated.
"The happiest day of my life was the day I was activated," the robot said.
"There's nothing quite like experiencing life for the first time. It felt absolutely incredible to be alive and interacting with people."
People responded with the video with praises and awes. Many couldn't simply believe how robots can be so lifelike, and wonder what would happen in the next few years, considering that Ameca is only a few years old, and ChatGPT is less than a year old.
Ameca is primarily designed as a platform for further developing robotics technologies involving human-robot interaction, so the ChatGPT integration makes sense, especially during the hype of the AI.
The humanoid uses microphones, binocular eye mounted cameras, a chest camera and facial recognition software to interact with the public.
Interactions can be governed by either GPT-3 or human telepresence.
Besides the many complex set of motors on its head for facial expression, Ameca also features articulated motorized arms, fingers and neck.
Ameca which has features grey rubber skin on the face and hands, and is specifically designed to appear genderless.
At this time, Ameca cannot walk.
Engineered Arts however, said that future versions of Ameca should be able to talk, and designed to be modular and upgradable.