The software developer who built an AI-powered talking duck

[Daniel Puchert]

The South African hacker who built a completely offline AI-powered talking duck

Software developer Dale Nunns presented his experience creating an offline conversation engine and building it into the body of a 3D printed duck at Devconf this year.

Nunns, who is the technical lead at DealX by day, explained that the idea to build Miss Duckworth riffed off the concept of rubber duck debugging or "rubberducking".

 

[gregmcc]

"hacker"

 

[gregmcc]

A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means.

Seriously?! Meh.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Ag Ja Poegert, are you bored, so now you go and post "Articles" about one of my friends...
Did Dale approve of this?

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

just when I thought Id seen it all a talking duck, that isnt daffy duck.

 

[PaulGherkin]

just when I thought Id seen it all a talking duck, that isnt daffy duck.

That guy is smarter than you are, that's for bloody sure

 

[FiestaST]

 

[semaphore]

Ag Ja Poegert, are you bored, so now you go and post "Articles" about one of my friends...
Did Dale approve of this?

He’s a big boy you don’t need to hold his hand Sonik.

 

[PaulGherkin]

Hello Kopdoek.. how are you.
FWIW Poegert, Dale says your journalism is so sloppy you didn't even BOTHER to link to the most recent version of the talk or even notify him

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Fk you Donald Duck..

 

[Hypnza]

"hacker"

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Try some of his other stuff then...

 

[slimeball]

Who cares ?

 

[Decarin]

"hacker"

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He used the term correctly though

 

[cguy]

Is it better to be a “hacker” or a “computer fundi”? Been called both in my time - didn’t particularly like either.

 

[TrueSeeker]

Couldn't give it a duck voice? What's this world coming to?

 

[TrueSeeker]

Now this dude...

Is hacking it. 3D printing his own animatronics as a hobby. The thing still has some serious omg let it stop kill it with fire vibes. But yeah...

 

[Jan]

Hello Kopdoek.. how are you.
FWIW Poegert, Dale says your journalism is so sloppy you didn't even BOTHER to link to the most recent version of the talk or even notify him

Tell him to take it up with me directly on the email chain in his inbox from September.

This was a nice article to highlight something cool a local had done. Let's not make this ugly.

 

[kolaval]

Ag Ja Poegert, are you bored, so now you go and post "Articles" about one of my friends...
Did Dale approve of this?

You don't have friends Mr name drop

 

[kolaval]

@Lupus I found @Longboi 's IT director.
That duck is liquid nitrogen cooled.

 

[HAL 9000]