Surely there are some readers who have dreamed, at least once, of actually traveling around the world with their Pokédex in hand hunting for Pokémon. However, you can’t actually do it because we have to remind you that Pokémon don’t exist, but if nothing else you can have Ash’s iconic tool actually working.\r\nYou’ll just have to copy the hard work done by a user who, as reported by Kotaku, also used ChatGPT to build Nintendo’s collectible creature search tool software.\r\nEngineering enthusiast Abe’s Projects, known outside the Pokémon world as Abe Haskins, is a former Google engineer who, after being fired from company, has decided to throw himself into life as a content creator on YouTube (the irony).\r\nAmong his projects is the creation of a truly functioning Pokédex, which the YouTuber began building at the beginning of the month .\r\nHaskins stated that he got the idea while thinking back to all the gadgets that were seen in anime from the time of the Pokémon animated series, and it was the Pokédex that struck him to the point of wanting to recreate it. “It was so cool I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” said the content creator.\r\nHaskins had three goals: he wanted the device to be similar to the one in the anime, to be able to recognize Pokémon in most situations and had a robotic voice similar to the one heard in the series.\r\n\r\nThe YouTuber 3D printed a rectangular red case for the device, into which he inserted the components necessary to make the Pokédex work, including a camera to identify Pokémon, a speaker and a battery.\r\nFor identification it used ChatGPT-4, the powerful OpenAI chatbot, which allowed the device to compare the framed creatures with the Pokémon API , to return the iconic descriptions from the database.\r\nHaskins even managed to replicate the voice of Nick Stellate, the actor behind the Pokédex entry from 1997 to 1998. All thanks to PlayHT, an AI-based voice generator, with which Haskins cloned Stellate’s voice from a video clip.\r\n”My goal is to inspire people to tackle their own projects, not just buy mine: that’s not fun,” Haskins said.\r \nSo no: you cannot buy this extraordinary work. But there are many dedicated gadgets that you can find on Amazon.\r\nSpeaking of nostalgia, do you know how many years ago Pokémon Yellow was released? More than you were imagining.