Foreign Affairs
It's called RizzGPT
The ChatGPT glasses to make a good impression in conversations
A Stanford student's idea: apply artificial intelligence to an augmented reality lens to suggest "brilliant" answers. But there is no shortage of 'bugs'
26/05/2023
Reuters
A lens with attached ChatGPT to make a good impression in conversations, both in an appointment and during a job interview?
This is the idea of Bryan Chiang, 22, a computer science student at Stanford University, who created it by implementing an augmented reality lens with artificial intelligence.
The lens, which Chiang christened RizzGPT, is equipped with a camera, microphone and an internal projector screen on which words can be displayed.
"RizzGPT", explains the young computer scientist, "listens to the conversation in progress and suggests what to say", projecting the text on the lens-screen.
The intuition, he tells Reuters, came in view of a 'hackaton', one of those events in which engineers, programmers and graphic designers meet to discuss and develop ideas and projects.
With a laptop, some friends and an augmented reality eyepiece, Chiang made the prototype.
The augmented reality optical system, designed by Brilliant Labs, is open-source. The student was thus able to modify the firmware and internal components to adapt it to the use of the Artificial Intelligence bot.
When someone talks to the user, RizzGPT monitors the conversation through the microphone, turns it into text, and sends it via WiFi to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot to generate a response.
The prototype, Chiang admits, has bugs of various kinds, starting with text formatted in a way that is difficult to read.
The young Stanford student says he has no plans to commercialize glasses, he just wants to demonstrate what's possible with this technology.