Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 8:39:08 GMT
Musician Grimes has developed an AI-powered interactive plush toy for children that can converse and “learn” the personalities of its owners. Grimes and toy company Curio created the toy line in partnership with OpenAI, as first reported by The Washington Post . Grimes, who voices all three toys, is also an investor and advisor on the product. The three plush figures are named Gabbo, Grem and Grok; They should not be confused with the artificial intelligence chatbot called Grok, owned by Elon Musk, Grimes' former partner. Curio told the Mail that the Grok AI plush toy and the Grok chatbot are not related.
The Grok toy is an abbreviation of the word "Grocket Europe Mobile Number List which Grimes said he coined due to the fact that his and Musk's children grew up around SpaceX rockets. In a post in X Music, he claimed that Musk's two-year-old son could identify "obscure rocket designs" and often followed his father into engineering meetings. All three characters have unique personalities that Curio built on the OpenAI language model. “Grok is a friendly rocket who loves to dance and doesn't know how to fly. Grem is an alien obsessed with the color pink. Gabbo is a curious, Pinocchio-like figure who is always looking for new friends.
The idea here is that we can create fun and lovable personalities in every new character we release,” Curio co-founder Misha Sallee wrote in an email to The Verge . According to Sallee, the toys currently have one mode, a “sweet, friendly, teasing personality that is appropriate for children,” but the company is working on functionality in beta that allows parents to set more preferences. According to the US Patent and Trademark Office database, Curio filed an application to register the name Grok on September 12, , although the application is still pending.
