Whether or not we prefer it or not, AI has shortly change into commonplace and that’s as a result of it’s helpful. Even these of us with severe moral and sensible issues should admit that there’s actual comfort in with the ability to pull a smartphone out of your pocket, ask a query, and get a reasonably respectable AI response in seconds. However what in case you have a restrictive information plan? Or don’t have a smartphone in any respect? What in case you’re nonetheless utilizing a 20-year-old Motorola Razr? The answer is LennoxLow’s DIY SMS AI chatbot.
TETHER is a small machine supposed to take a seat unobtrusively on a shelf within the person’s residence. There, it merely waits till it receives a textual content message from its person. When it does, it passes the question alongside to ChatGPT over the web. As soon as it will get it response from ChatGPT, it sends that as a textual content message again to the person. It could additionally add some snarky quips, which is ideal for these of us who learn too many LitRPG novels and anticipate our AIs to sass us.
That is, in fact, an extremely area of interest machine and most of the people gained’t want it, as a result of they’ll merely talk with the AI of their alternative instantly by way of their smartphone. But it surely does make sense for sure conditions, like when information utilization is a priority, the cell connectivity is poor, or the cellphone is outdated. The cellphone on this state of affairs is barely sending and receiving SMS messages, which even an previous Razr can deal with.
The TETHER machine incorporates two key parts in its 3D-printed enclosure: an ESP32 improvement board and a A7670SA GSM module. Anybody constructing this might want to see if they’ll use that very same GSM module or if one other sort of mobile modem is critical for his or her area/service. That module will get a devoted SIM card, which must be lively. That’s needed for TETHER to ship and obtain textual content messages.
From there, establishing TETHER is so simple as supplying energy, including a ChatGPT API key, and flashing the Arduino code.
And as a bonus, TETHER will reply to any textual content messages it receives — they don’t have to come back from your cellphone quantity. So, the subsequent time somebody on the bar hounds you to your cellphone quantity, you can provide them TETHER’s quantity. That ought to maintain the thirsty Don Juan occupied for some time.
