“It uses an ESP home IR sensor managed by Home Assistant, a camera to recognize kids and costumes, Quen to generate responses, and a servo-driven skeleton rat with text-to-speech”
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What was described
built an AI-enabled Halloween prop: ESP32 IR sensor triggers Home Assistant, camera recognises kids’ costumes, Quen LLM generates spoken responses, servo-driven skeleton rat talks via TTS
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“None of our participants directly interfaced with the LLM. ... a fellow researcher would turn their camera off and be interfacing with the LLM directly, taking the participant responses and passing them through”
“We had to come up with brand new sensors and hyperspectral and mid-wave IR that didn't exist ... spacecraft were going to be operating at 200 million miles away”