Like many lonely children, Lucas Rizzotto had an imaginary friend: a talking microwave called Magnetron. As the years passed, the pals drifted apart. But Rizzotto never forgot about Magnetron. When OpenAI released the GPT-3 language model, Rizzotto saw a chance to rekindle the friendship. The self-described “full-time mad scientist” chronicled the resurrection in a YouTube video. His story provides a cautionary tale about the dangers — and delights — of AI. Friends reunited As a child, Rizzotto had given his imaginary friend a detailed life story. “In my mind, he was an English gentleman from the 1900s, a WW1 veteran,…

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