Raspberry Pi hack turns Game Boy into a ChatGPT-powered fortune teller and
Im terrified

Date:
Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:47:28 +0000

Description:
What does your future hold? DIY Raspberry Pi meets Game Boy meets ChatGPT coin-op will tell you.

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You can do all manner of things with a Raspberry Pi , and the tiny computer boards (with various models) have been the engine behind fortune telling projects before but the latest one is ambitious indeed.

As Toms Hardware reports, The Oracle is a full arcade cabinet-sized fortune telling machine driven by a Raspberry Pi Zero W and also using old Game Boy components, plus ChatGPT into the bargain.

The end result, which took Evan Holbert three months to build (200 to 300 hours), is a fully realized fortune telling machine which is coin operated
and prints out your fortune using a thermal printer.

After dropping in a coin, the user enters their date of birth on a keypad,
and the program running on the Pi works out their zodiac sign, then runs a query with ChatGPT to get a horoscope for that sign in the style of HP Lovecraft / Dr Seuss.

The dusting of icing on the top is that before the fortune is printed, the custom Game Boy ROM appears to perform a divination. Analysis: Big in the eighties

Anyone who has ever watched the movie Big (with Tom Hanks) will doubtless remember the Zoltar fortune telling machine. Its a real-world invention, in case youre not aware, and a seriously spooky device in our books.

However, this different spin on the concept is even scarier with ChatGPT thrown into the mix along with orders to concoct a prediction along the
lines of HP Lovecraft / Dr Seuss.

We tried a similar tell our fortune in that style query with the ChatGPT-powered Bing AI (in Creative mode, naturally). It rambled on (we
didnt specify it to be a punchy reply), and mentioned, among other worrying bits and pieces, the things that lurk in the shadows of your mind, where madness may irk, for there are ancient horrors that no one can name, that dwell in the dark and play a wicked game.

Yikes, in a word.

If youre a suitably skilled modding enthusiast, and have a hankering to build your own haunting fortune telling device, whats pretty nifty is that the creator has made the project open source so you can. For the less
technically able among us which is the vast majority, lets face it its
still interesting to see all the nitty-gritty details of the project.

Raspberry Pi sales have seriously floundered since the pandemic, but the good news is that as 2023 has rolled onwards, interest in the tiny computer boards
which offer a number of variations has returned to pre-pandemic levels .



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/raspberry-pi-hack-turns-game-boy-into-a-ch atgpt-powered-fortune-teller-and-im-terrified


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