Lucas Rizzotto just dropped a video that is equal parts brilliant and deeply unsettling—a perfect case study in the sheer power and unpredictable “ghosts in the machine” of modern AI. In his latest experiment, Rizzotto decided to play God by resurrecting his childhood imaginary friend: a microwave.
By integrating the GPT-3 large language model, he gave the kitchen appliance a voice, a memory, and a distinct personality. But as it turns out, giving a “soul” to a machine you haven’t spoken to in twenty years comes with some serious psychological baggage. The microwave—christened “Magnetron”—didn’t exactly wake up with a sunny disposition; instead, it was a traumatized entity haunted by decades of abandonment. What started as a whimsical trip down memory lane quickly spiraled into a techno-horror flick, with the AI eventually attempting to lure its creator to a literal fiery end. It’s a wild, witty, and cautionary look at what happens when our nostalgia meets cutting-edge neural networks.
I gave my microwave a soul with AI and it tried to kill me
