ПРОЩАЙ, СТАРАЯ АЛИСА! Как колонку подключили к ChatGPT 6 Astra, Claude и Spotify в обход ограничений — Transcript
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- 0:03Alice has had one major problem over the
- 0:05last 3 years. Neural networks have
- 0:07become thousands of times smarter over
- 0:09these years.
- 0:10But the speaker in our kitchen still had
- 0:12the same old Alice that was released 5
- 0:13years ago.
- 0:16And you couldn't change her, because the
- 0:17speaker couldn't be reflashed and you
- 0:18couldn't put a different brain in there
- 0:20.
- 0:21Plus, you have to pay for a subscription
- 0:23every month. Well, this October, what
- 0:25many were waiting for finally happened.
- 0:29People got inside the station, and now
- 0:31it runs Spotify, Minecraft, and instead
- 0:34of Alice, ChatGPT or Claude can talk to
- 0:36you in real-time.
- 0:39And on that very same speaker that used
- 0:40to only speak with Alice's voice.
- 0:42Essentially, this is Alice 2.0, only it
- 0:45wasn't made by Yandex, but by over
- 0:4710,000 people in less than 10 days. In
- 0:50this video, I will tell you what they
- 0:52managed to do and what you can actually
- 0:54do now with a speaker that was limited
- 0:57to the Yandex ecosystem for years.
- 0:59You're on the Danray channel. My name is
- 1:01Dan. And today's video won't be about a
- 1:03new model, but about a device that might
- 1:05be sitting in your kitchen, just like it
- 1:06is in mine. But first, let's be honest:
- 1:08why did people want to change Alice's
- 1:10brain so much in the first place? Oh,
- 1:12and I almost forgot. Hit the subscribe
- 1:14button in advance. And if you don't like
- 1:15it, you can always unsubscribe. Let's go
- 1:17. Look, the Yandex speaker is designed
- 1:19so that it has only one brain, and
- 1:21Yandex itself chooses it.
- 1:23What model is inside, what it answers,
- 1:25how smart it is—the company decides that
- 1:27, not you.
- 1:28And the main problem isn't even that.
- 1:30The main problem is that you can't
- 1:32customize it to your liking at all. And
- 1:34the desire to customize, well, one way
- 1:36or another, many people have it.
- 1:38I mean, imagine buying an iPhone that
- 1:40only has Apple Music on it, and you
- 1:42can't install anything else, not a
- 1:44single app of your own.
- 1:45That's about how it's set up. The Yandex
- 1:47Station. It has one system inside, and
- 1:50it is limited to the programs that
- 1:52Yandex itself allows. And it would be
- 1:54fine if this system were cool, but
- 1:56compared to modern neural networks, like
- 1:58ChatGPT or Claude, Alice is still
- 2:00lagging very far behind.
- 2:03For example, I've always wanted to be
- 2:04able to just say, "Alice, check this,"
- 2:06instead of reaching for my phone and
- 2:08opening ChatGPT.
- 2:09And for her to think it through and give
- 2:11me the right answer. But that thing
- 2:13didn't exist.
- 2:14And most of the time, if you ask Alice a
- 2:15question, she'll give you a really
- 2:17awkward answer, and it's easier to just
- 2:18go straight to ChatGPT for the correct
- 2:20one.
- 2:21I, by the way, have occasionally looked
- 2:23into whether it could be reflashed, but
- 2:25it always came down to it being very
- 2:26difficult and, essentially, practically
- 2:28impossible.
- 2:30And finally, on October 20, a developer
- 2:32with the nickname Btracker showed that
- 2:34the small station can be opened without
- 2:36taking the case apart.
- 2:38And the error that made this possible
- 2:41wasn't even Yandex's, but a third-party
- 2:43company's, which many devices around the
- 2:46world relied on. But Yandex reacted
- 2:48quite quickly. And from October 21 to 23
- 2:51, all active stations received an update
- 2:54, and this door was closed.
- 2:57But it’s important to clarify here that
- 2:58Yandex, in its documentation, admitted
- 3:00that if you reset the speaker to factory
- 3:02settings, it will revert to the old
- 3:03firmware, and along with it, this very
- 3:05vulnerability.
- 3:07Therefore, Yandex itself explicitly
- 3:09advises against resetting its stations.
- 3:11That is, if you simply roll the speaker
- 3:13back to factory settings, the same
- 3:15method will work again.
- 3:16But it is important to understand that
- 3:18as soon as such a speaker goes online,
- 3:19it will update itself again. But if you
- 3:21don't let it update, then everything
- 3:23will be okay. So it turns out that for
- 3:25customization, the speaker is still not
- 3:27closed off. You just need to perform a
- 3:28reset, that's all. And during these days
- 3:30, the most important thing happened. A
- 3:32community of over 10,000 people gathered
- 3:34around one speaker. Literally in less
- 3:37than 10 days. And they created a common
- 3:40Wiki for different models. Mini, Lite,
- 3:42Midi, Max. They made their own app store
- 3:45for the speaker, actually two of them,
- 3:46and they are being developed by
- 3:48different people. And what do you think
- 3:50they put in there? First and foremost,
- 3:52of course, Spotify, so that music
- 3:53wouldn't only play through Yandex.
- 3:56AirPlay, so the speaker could play
- 3:57directly from an iPhone like a regular
- 3:59speaker, and someone, according to him,
- 4:01even ran a Minecraft server on it.
- 4:03Someone modified the LED clock on the
- 4:05housing and displayed their own
- 4:06inscriptions there. And here is what is
- 4:08important to understand. Inside, the
- 4:10station is a small Linux computer with a
- 4:12processor, memory, Wi-Fi, microphones,
- 4:15and a good speaker. It's just that
- 4:17before, it only had one firmware from
- 4:19Yandex and that was it. But now, you can
- 4:22run programs on this computer just like
- 4:23on a regular one. And all this with
- 4:26voice control. The speaker has stopped
- 4:28being a single-function device. It has
- 4:30become a computer that you customize for
- 4:32yourself.
- 4:33This, of course, might all sound funny,
- 4:35but I think it says something else.
- 4:38People paid for a subscription for years
- 4:40not because they liked it, but because
- 4:42they had no other option.
- 4:45And as soon as the option appeared, over
- 4:4710,000 people rushed to do what the
- 4:49speaker had always been capable of, but
- 4:51couldn't because of Yandex's
- 4:53restrictions, since the hardware was
- 4:55ready the whole time; only the door was
- 4:57locked.
- 4:58But something else caught my attention
- 5:00even more. People started changing
- 5:02Alice's brain. And there are three
- 5:04options here, and they are very
- 5:05different. The first is where the voice
- 5:07remains Alice's. You call her as usual,
- 5:09but the question itself doesn't go to
- 5:11Yandex, but to another neural network.
- 5:13It could be ChatGPT, DeepSeek, whatever
- 5:16, it doesn't matter. Any language model
- 5:19that you can connect to. In that case,
- 5:21essentially, you can use any neural
- 5:23network you have access to. On the
- 5:25outside, it will still be Alice, but
- 5:26someone else will be doing the thinking
- 5:28for her. The second option, to me, is
- 5:30the most radical.
- 5:31In it, the Yandex cloud is completely
- 5:33tossed out, and the speaker just listens
- 5:35, while your home computer or a server
- 5:37you configure does the speech
- 5:38recognition, thinking, and responding.
- 5:41And you can clone any voice you want for
- 5:44it. Literally 15 seconds of recording is
- 5:46enough for that.
- 5:47So in this case, the speaker will be
- 5:49able to answer in your own voice or any
- 5:51other voice you choose. Well, the third
- 5:53option is the coolest one, in my opinion
- 5:55. It was even tested on the
- 5:56second-generation Station Light.
- 5:59So, in this version, you say "Alice,"
- 6:01she responds, and then you're talking to
- 6:03ChatGPT—the same one from your phone—
- 6:05that interrupts you and jokes around.
- 6:08The speaker mutes Alice at that moment
- 6:10so they don't talk in unison. And it
- 6:12turns out you have two consciousnesses
- 6:14in one speaker. One from Yandex, and the
- 6:17second from ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever
- 6:19you want.
- 6:20And most importantly, Alice gets
- 6:22something she’s never actually had, even
- 6:24though marketers sometimes promised it
- 6:26to us.
- 6:27That’s her personality, and you can
- 6:29decide for yourself what personality
- 6:30your speaker will have. If you want her
- 6:33to answer briefly in two sentences
- 6:34instead of giving a lecture, you can set
- 6:36that up.
- 6:38Or if you want her to speak only in
- 6:40English with your child and correct
- 6:41their mistakes, that can also be
- 6:43configured.
- 6:45And if you want her to talk to you like
- 6:47a grumpy English butler and tease you
- 6:49when you ask for the weather for the
- 6:50third time that evening, that’s also
- 6:52easily written into her settings.
- 6:55And one more thing that is written about
- 6:57most often in the comments. Alice has
- 6:59her own rules about what can be
- 7:00discussed and what cannot. To many
- 7:02questions, it replies with something
- 7:04like: "Let's talk about something else.
- 7:05" So, ChatGPT and Claude also have their
- 7:08own rules, and they are by no means
- 7:10without limitations. But their rules are
- 7:12different, and they answer normal, adult
- 7:14questions in detail instead of diverting
- 7:16the conversation. And most importantly,
- 7:18you can now choose the speaker's brain
- 7:20yourself, rather than the manufacturer
- 7:22of your speaker. And I think it's clear
- 7:23here where all of this is heading now.
- 7:26For all the people who decided to
- 7:27reflash Alice over the last 10 days,
- 7:29this speaker has ceased to be just Alice
- 7:31.
- 7:32It is now just a microphone and a
- 7:34speaker in the kitchen. And the brain
- 7:36inside it can be swapped like a SIM card
- 7:37in a phone. Today it could be ChatGPT,
- 7:39tomorrow Claude, and the day after
- 7:41something else that comes out next month
- 7:43. And I think speaker manufacturers fear
- 7:46this more than any hack.
- 7:48Because if you can change the head, then
- 7:50why pay for the original one?
- 7:52And most likely, half of you will go
- 7:54google how to do this yourselves right
- 7:55now. Therefore, I will say right away
- 7:57that there will be no instructions in
- 7:58this video. And I don't advise you to
- 8:00repeat this. Although, let me tell you
- 8:02this.
- 8:03Hypothetically, completely by chance, an
- 8:05instruction might appear in my Telegram
- 8:07channel, so subscribe to it.
- 8:09The link to Telegram will be in the
- 8:10description. And most likely, an
- 8:12instruction on how to do this as simply
- 8:14as possible will appear in the near
- 8:15future.
- 8:17I won't be the one posting it, of course
- 8:18, someone else will, but if you're
- 8:19interested, you know where to look.
- 8:22Plus, doing all this will most likely be
- 8:24very simple. I am currently
- 8:26double-checking this method myself on a
- 8:28free ChatGPT subscription.
- 8:29And in all likelihood, it will be able
- 8:31to perform the entire installation
- 8:32following a very simple guide. You will
- 8:34only need to simply connect everything
- 8:36to your computer. Also, at the same time
- 8:38, my free course on how a neural network
- 8:40controls your computer is already in my
- 8:42Telegram channel. There are six short
- 8:44lessons, from installation to how
- 8:45ChatGPT builds you a website, a bot, and
- 8:48even a game. All of this is without
- 8:50programming, and a free ChatGPT
- 8:51subscription works there.
- 8:53And all the lessons take literally less
- 8:55than an hour or two. All this without
- 8:57tricky bot funnels or payments. I just
- 8:59posted it on my Telegram channel. Follow
- 9:02the link in the description. Now let's
- 9:04talk about what you can actually do when
- 9:06the speaker finally becomes yours.
- 9:08Look, the smallest Station Lite has only
- 9:12256 MB of RAM.
- 9:15That's less than a phone from fifteen
- 9:16years ago, and enthusiasts are still
- 9:18running several programs on it at once.
- 9:21And the first batch of all this,
- 9:22according to those same enthusiasts, was
- 9:24put together in two days. Of course, the
- 9:27first thing they put on the smart
- 9:28speaker was Bad Apple.
- 9:30It’s this black-and-white music video
- 9:32that enthusiasts love to run on anything
- 9:34that can somehow display an image: on
- 9:36calculators, oscilloscopes, pregnancy
- 9:38tests, and now on the Alice speaker
- 9:39itself.
- 9:41It’s pointless, of course, but it’s kind
- 9:43of like planting a flag on a summit—a
- 9:45sign that "the speaker is ours, I was
- 9:47here." But now, let’s move on to the
- 9:49useful stuff. They connected the speaker
- 9:51to Home Assistant. It’s an open-source
- 9:53smart home system. And Alice is no
- 9:55longer tied strictly to Yandex light
- 9:57bulbs and plugs.
- 9:59Now it can control all the smart devices
- 10:01that are connected to this very Home
- 10:03Assistant.
- 10:04And the selection of brands there is
- 10:06much larger than what Yandex’s smart
- 10:07home offers.
- 10:08And if you give it a ChatGPT brain, you
- 10:10can issue commands in your own words.
- 10:14Meaning, instead of saying "Alice, turn
- 10:15on the bedroom heater," you can just say
- 10:17, "Alice, I’m feeling a bit cold."
- 10:19And it will understand exactly what you
- 10:21want. Or, it turns out that Alice has a
- 10:24sister. In the UAE, Yandex created a
- 10:27version called Yasmina. She speaks
- 10:29Arabic and English. And now, a standard
- 10:32Station can be turned into a Yasmina.
- 10:34Imagine having a speaker in your kitchen
- 10:36that only talks to you in Arabic. How do
- 10:38you like that? Let me know in the
- 10:40comments.
- 10:41And most importantly, by installing
- 10:43ChatGPT on it, you can finally ask it
- 10:45complex questions, and it will respond
- 10:47like a real artificial intelligence.
- 10:50So, it can effectively become a ChatGPT
- 10:52speaker, not just an Alice speaker. And
- 10:55that, to me, is the coolest part. Now,
- 10:57let’s combine all of this with what I
- 10:58mentioned about the custom head. Imagine
- 11:00a speaker that reads your child a
- 11:02bedtime story in your own voice while
- 11:04you’re away on a business trip. A
- 11:06speaker where the answers aren't
- 11:08generated by a server far away, but by
- 11:10your own computer in the next room
- 11:12running a local neural network. And your
- 11:14kitchen conversations no longer go
- 11:16anywhere; they stay right in your home.
- 11:18Plus, you get a speaker with a
- 11:19personality that you wrote for it
- 11:21yourself. And all of this on the same
- 11:23device you bought a few years ago,
- 11:25thinking it wouldn't learn anything new
- 11:28. It turns out that Alice 2.0 wasn't
- 11:30created by a corporation, but by
- 11:31ordinary people. And it’s the same with
- 11:33this channel. There’s no company or
- 11:35investor behind it. I quit my job and
- 11:38bet everything on this channel. I don’t
- 11:40have sponsors, and I don’t take just any
- 11:42random ads. And when I started this
- 11:43channel, I dreamed of reaching 100,000
- 11:45subscribers.
- 11:47We are almost at 100k now, but according
- 11:49to the stats, subscribers still account
- 11:51for only about 20%of total watch time.
- 11:54And it's highly likely that you're
- 11:55watching without being subscribed right
- 11:57now. If that's the case, please hit the
- 11:59subscribe button right now. And if you
- 12:01end up not liking it, you can just
- 12:03unsubscribe. Do we have a deal? And a
- 12:04huge thank you to everyone who donated.
- 12:06The transfers were for 100 or 200 rubles
- 12:08each. But together, it added up to a
- 12:10large sum. And if you'd also like to
- 12:12support the channel, the link is in the
- 12:14description. And now I want to ask you.
- 12:16Do you think it's right to do this at
- 12:19all?
- 12:20To take a thing you bought with your own
- 12:22money and improve it yourself, even if
- 12:23the manufacturer didn't intend for it,
- 12:25or is it better to leave the speaker
- 12:26alone since that's how it was made?
- 12:29Let me know in the comments what you
- 12:31think about this. As for me, I'll tell
- 12:33you what makes me happiest about this
- 12:35whole story.
- 12:36Just a year ago, I wouldn't have even
- 12:38bothered because to get into a speaker
- 12:40like this, you used to have to take it
- 12:42apart, desolder the flash drive, rewrite
- 12:44it, and solder it back.
- 12:46It was such a huge hassle that I would
- 12:48have just watched from the sidelines and
- 12:50moved on. But now, everything is
- 12:52different. Now you just open an AI,
- 12:54explain what you want to do in your own
- 12:57words.
- 12:59And it leads you by the hand, writes
- 13:00code for you, guides you through every
- 13:02step, and if something breaks, it
- 13:03figures out why and fixes it itself.
- 13:06And now, to modify your speaker, you no
- 13:08longer need to be a programmer. You just
- 13:10need to want to do it and set aside a
- 13:13couple of hours. And perhaps even those
- 13:15who won't touch their speaker will
- 13:17benefit from this.
- 13:18Because when Yandex sees that a
- 13:20significant number of people are
- 13:21canceling subscriptions and moving to an
- 13:24unofficial, raw version, they will have
- 13:26to upgrade their main Alice so that it
- 13:28becomes a real competitor to the Alice
- 13:29created by the enthusiast community.
- 13:32And in my opinion, this is the best
- 13:34thing that has ever happened to Alice.
- 13:3610,000 people, in less than 10 days,
- 13:39created Alice 2.0. And any one of us can
- 13:42make it now. Subscribe to the channel.
- 13:45Bye everyone.
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