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This man built a pneumatic gun controlled by ChatGPT for "construction" and it's terrifying
Not The Bee ^ | January 20, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 01/20/2025 10:52:56 AM PST by Red Badger

Who says AI can't be useful? People from various industries have begun taking advantage of artificial intelligence to help with writing, translation, coding, and now… horrifying and potentially lethal weapons.

A fascinating but terrifying video posted online shows a man demonstrating a pneumatic gun controlled by ChatGPT that can be commanded to track and fire on targets of a specific color.

Though ChatGPT's parent company OpenAI reportedly shut off the engineer's API access due to disapproving of its application, the results remain truly impressive. With simple voice commands, the engineer directs the gun to target balloons of a specific color… with devastating consequences. For the balloons, at least.

But don't worry, folks, the machine's creator says it was created for an innocuous purpose:

It's a fully automated AI-enabled pneumatic nailing tool, and I think this is going to be super transformational for the construction industry in 2025.

"Construction industry." Sure…

(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Science
KEYWORDS: airgun; pneumaticgun
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To: Red Badger
I suspect it's all fake and simply designed to get the content creator millions of views, earning him a bundle of money.

He's giving commands and his buddy off-camera is operating the controller.

21 posted on 01/20/2025 4:37:37 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Oh yeah this will end good.

“Hey Nail Gun nail those 2x’s in!’’

“I can’t do that Dave...’’


22 posted on 01/20/2025 10:54:36 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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