Wow, this seem great. I know pretty much nothing about making music, but I've wanted something that I can stim with that's nice and tactile, but also makes sound depending on how it's touched. I looked at Glo, The Polyphonic Whale, but never got one. I have an Otamatone, but don't like how I can't do more than one note at the same time (no chording).
Here's one of the creator's comments on the YouTube video:
For those who are curious, the way that got GPT-3 to control the microwave was super clunky, but effective: I trained it to say a string with special characters whenever it wants to turn the microwave on {{ MICROWAVE ON 30 SEC }) and as we talk to each other a javascript bot is looking for those commands in the GPT-3 chat logs in real time. Whenever it finds a command, that JS bot connects to the Microwave API and triggers it to do what GPT-3 is telling it to. The reason I didn't put this in the video is that couldn't find any way to explain this that wasn't incredibly boring Imao
Also, to a comment saying
How much of the dialogue is staged??
The creator replied
none of it, actually! the microwave has said all of the things it said in the video. of course there's a lot leave out in editing, and the order in which he said things wasn't necessarily what's in the final video, but everything in this video was said by the microwave at some point in time.
So, I think the whole thing is more like the creator's loose and cherry picked interpretation of what happened.
This plus headphones seems like a fun time!