The Robotics & AI module was built around the concept of Artificial Eternity. We designed Treetale for it, a prototype device that keeps a family's messages and moments in one system they can talk to. It lets family members live in their memories in a different way.
With the device you either record a new memory or turn the dial to pick a family member and ask about them out loud. Speech recognition passes the question to ChatGPT. The AI answers in a voice that changes with the person you asked about and tells the moments the family has stored. Connecting the Arduino dial, the speech recognition and ChatGPT took many hours and mentoring sessions.
The case was modelled in Onshape. We measured every button and the display and printed four versions until everything fit. Soldering all the cables into it took longer than planned, because each fitting brought another adjustment to the printed box.
At the exhibition, visitors could add a memory or listen to the stored memories of a hypothetical family, the Evans: the mother Meret, her children Bella and Jay and the grandfather Jerry.
The Robotics & AI module was built around the concept of Artificial Eternity. We designed Treetale for it, a prototype device that keeps a family's messages and moments in one system they can talk to. It lets family members live in their memories in a different way.
With the device you either record a new memory or turn the dial to pick a family member and ask about them out loud. Speech recognition passes the question to ChatGPT. The AI answers in a voice that changes with the person you asked about and tells the moments the family has stored. Connecting the Arduino dial, the speech recognition and ChatGPT took many hours and mentoring sessions.
The case was modelled in Onshape. We measured every button and the display and printed four versions until everything fit. Soldering all the cables into it took longer than planned, because each fitting brought another adjustment to the printed box.
At the exhibition, visitors could add a memory or listen to the stored memories of a hypothetical family, the Evans: the mother Meret, her children Bella and Jay and the grandfather Jerry.
Treetale
Concept