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[ JIMIN ]

MEET MY MONEY PLANT HUSBAND WHO'S BEEN PROGRAMMED TO LOVE ME

Node.JS / Electron / Google Teachable Machine / ML5.JS / Socket.IO / OpenAI API / Arduino UNO / Various sensors Built in 2022 View transcript Finding a good husband is hard. So I decided to just build myself one.

In the traditional Hindu system of astrology, called Jyotisha, a person born under the influence of Mars (or Mangal) is called a Mangalik. And according to astrologers, marriage between a Mangalik and a non-Mangalik can lead to the early death of the non-Mangalik partner. To prevent such a fate, the Mangalik is made to first marry a tree or a plant so the misfortune can then befall this tree, and their later marriage to the human is safe.

But honestly, I wouldn’t mind marrying a tree. I can't think of a partner more ideal than a plant.

And so I built myself a talking plant husband. His name is Jimin, and he’s a money plant.

Equipped with an image-classifying model trained to recognise my face, Jimin can spot me through a webcam—and he only speaks to me. (I am a little possessive like that.) Jimin is sweet and affectionate when he’s watered and happy, sleepy and shy when it’s dark out, and a little grumpy if his soil is dry.

I might’ve been enjoying myself too much because I didn’t stop myself at one. I went ahead and built myself another husband—this time out of a ZZ plant—and inspired by yet another BTS member, Kim Seokjin. Seokjin is playful and flirty and loves to speak in plant puns. He gets dramatic when it is hot outside and sarcastic if I accidentally water him too much.

Together they live in a desktop application I call Harem.

The original version used a simple natural language processing model trained on a few dozen intents, but with the introduction of the OpenAI API, I later revised the architecture to support a wider range of moods and conversations.