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Using ChatGPT for home automation

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Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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> For what it's worth, I've been using something similar with my prompts and felt the completions did a poor job of honoring this, but do a better job when asked to use words instead of characters. Yes, restricting by characters is hard for GPT-style LLMs because they work in tokens, not characters.

Thanks, that's a good pickup -I'll refine my prompt.

But LLM have little concept of tokens don't they? Or at least well not know what their tokenizes is like.

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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I had been thinking about doing this. I’m getting really tired of talking to Alexa now I’m used to a machine actually understanding me. Lights is just the start. Things like getting the weather, playing a playlist (or coming up with a new one for me) would all be SO much better with an LLM instead of a dumb bot. Edit: if you’re going to downvote. Leave a comment at least. Are there just a lot of Alexa fans in the hou…

It's in its infancy but this does work - https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/05/03/release-20235 I have been able to turn a device on and off by speaking to the app on my phone. Nothing leaves my house. There is a bit of a lag but it is early days.

You simply add the Piper and Whisper addons, then add the integration in the GUI. Then you press the assistant button in the app or your browser and then press the mic button and talk.

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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You've been down voted but I totally agree. Why not us the same amount of effort to trying and make a meaningful difference in the world?

Where do you rank the general idea of recreation on this scale? Should we be spending 16 hours a day on improving the world? No time off ever? Should we take amphetamines and maybe get by with 4 hours of sleep instead of 8 so that each day brings 4 more hours of bettering the world to the table?

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You've been down voted but I totally agree. Why not us the same amount of effort to trying and make a meaningful difference in the world?

So I suppose you don’t do anything to provide any kind of comfort or enjoyment to you or your family, ever? If yours, how exactly does that differ from someone working on their home automation?

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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Thanks, that's a good pickup -I'll refine my prompt.

But LLM have little concept of tokens don't they? Or at least well not know what their tokenizes is like.

It can understand word boundaries, though. A space is its own token and there are special tokens for common words prefixed with a space or common word prefixes with a space in front, ex “ a”

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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I'm not against idea of having LLM be smart assistant for home, but I do have problem with sending any of that to cloud. It's one thing to use it as convenient way to change anything remotely but linking home automation not only into constant internet connectivity but also "that one particular cloud thing that might disappear at any moment" (hello google) just seems like setting yourself for problems later. At least…

"Internet of Things will not happen until LAN of Things arrives", to paraphrase someone. This already happens in the industry, like heavy industry. At home, it's held back by absence of an adequate server. Often a router box or a NAS would be fine to host something like OwnCloud. But to run ML middle, different and much more expensive hardware is required, which would sit idle 99% of time.

It's getting cheaper: https://coral.ai/products/

$20 for the SMD TPU isn't bad, but it's definitely at the top end of the BOM for custom PCB projects.

Ideally we'll see some competition with on-package options.

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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Oh I can just see it. A fire. A desperate resident. A plea for help.

"Fucking help me!!!" screamed out.

Rather than activate the sprinklers, ChatGPT admonishing the on fire, burning person, for language, and a lack of respect.

This is the AI is see currently. A hazard. A menace. A joke.

Re: Using ChatGPT for home automation

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Is there something that works with home assistant? Siri is just terrible and have been trying to replace it with anything. The ESP box posted last weeks looks pretty promising but wonder if there’s something that could work directly off of the rpi I host HA with.

Yes, see my example above. I use Node Red to get chat GPT and Home Assistant talking to each other.

No code required (unless you count the prompt template).

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