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Post by slewis »

jmccarthy wrote: post #106
lkozloff wrote: post #7

Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great. I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk. One fun thing I did with my family was have i…

While walking the dog today, it talked me through some trade-offs between DBSCAN and isolation forests. Walking + verbalizing the problem is a very different and positive experience for me. I've also used it several times on ~15-20min drives to memorize something I wanted to have available for immediate recall. I had it chunk & quiz me, and by the end of the drive I had it down pat. Fun use of drive time.

The memorization use case is brilliant. Put your talk track for a presentation in and say “help me memorize this by quizzing me”. Thanks!

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by baby »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #6

I just tried it out and I have to say I am blown away. I've never been someone who likes the voice capabilities (tried Siri once or twice, hated it) for just about any service as I can type pretty quickly but this is intelligent enough that I can have an unstructured conversation and still get to the results I want quickly. Very impressive.

I just got the Rayban Meta glasses an hour ago, put them on, said "Hey Meta" and I was interacting with an AI with my voice, and hearing a response back. It's so unbelievable and surreal I don't understand why Siri/Google assistant are not doing this already.

I really feel like I live in the future.

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by superultra »

I’ve been using this for several weeks now and it’s replaced podcasts for me. I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions. Other times I’ll just goof off. In one chat, I’m rewriting the Star Wars sequels movie by movie with ChatGPT. I’ve realized that I’m built to learn socially, and ChatGPT never tires of my questions or gets annoyed.

One interesting story. My 15 year old kid was talking to it about Percy Jackson, and as Gen Z is prone to do, was using the phrase “kind of” quite a bit. At some point in the conversation, ChatGPT started using “kind of” as well in the audio. I imagine the underlying prompt is “make sure your answers are clear to the user” and somehow it’s determining that “kind of” is a way to build clarity in that context, or the phrase is informing the token set. Unsure but it was a little unsettling.

For my part I find the natural pauses and accentuations really helpful. It’ll slow down when it’s hitting an “important” or complicated bit of information, and just like with humans, the pause and change in tone are indicators.

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Post by Loggias »

mattmaroon wrote: post #109
charles_f wrote: post #108

I don't get why in the midst of llm craze, Amazon is ditching devs from Alexa. It seems like abandoning a product for which the right technology just got invented

Alexa is a great example of a business building a market leading product that a lot of people love and then just completely failing to do anything with it.

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Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by EZ-E »

brap wrote: post #49
lkozloff wrote: post #7

Interesting - this was actually a feature that got me to convert. I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak, but overall it's been great. I've had some interesting discussions and it's helped me structure some thoughts by asking questions and follow-ups, then summarizing our conversation... all while I'm on a walk. One fun thing I did with my family was have i…

> I have some slight annoyances with how it handles natural pauses as I collect my thoughts and speak I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way. It seems like there’s nothing intelligent about when they decide to respond, it’s like they just wait for X milliseconds of silence instead of using the context of what’s being said like a human would. Sometimes it’s the opposite pro…

> I hate this about all voice assistants. They force you to speak in an unnatural way.

It would be great to have an option to have ChatGPT stop when saying "over" - it does not feel natural to have to blurt the questions all at once.

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Post by w-ll »

superultra wrote: post #114

I’ve been using this for several weeks now and it’s replaced podcasts for me. I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions. Other times I’ll just goof off. In one chat, I’m rewriting the Star Wars sequels movie by movie with ChatGPT. I’ve realized that I’m built to learn socially, and ChatGPT never tires of my questions or gets annoyed. One interesting story. My 15 year old kid…

Me, as a meat popsicle, can you explain to me how the phrase “kind of” is not common?

I feel like “kind of” is kind of a common adjective phrase, right?

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

I_am_tiberius wrote: post #112

Let me guess, your voices are being used for training purposes. I miss discussions about what a privacy nightmare it is that all the information you share is forever owned by openai and can be used for training purposes - BY DEFAULT!

Imagine being pissed that someone is hearing and learning from your voice as you’re having conversation together. The concepts of copyright and privacy we have come from a different world and they already made little sense in the 90s with the rise of the web and search. We think of them as absolute but they are a human invention. Arbitrary and specific to the zeitgeist it was born in. We need boundaries for sure. But what they are is unclear.

Re: ChatGPT with voice is now available to all free users

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Post by superultra »

w-ll wrote: post #117
superultra wrote: post #114

I’ve been using this for several weeks now and it’s replaced podcasts for me. I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions. Other times I’ll just goof off. In one chat, I’m rewriting the Star Wars sequels movie by movie with ChatGPT. I’ve realized that I’m built to learn socially, and ChatGPT never tires of my questions or gets annoyed. One interesting story. My 15 year old kid…

Me, as a meat popsicle, can you explain to me how the phrase “kind of” is not common? I feel like “kind of” is kind of a common adjective phrase, right?

It is, kind of! I definitely use it frequently, but the quantity that my kids use it is at a whole other level. But it’s a colloquial phrase that I rarely, if ever, hear ChatGPT use in the audio presentation, but looking at the chat transcript, there’s definitely a point at which it begins to use “kind of” in multiple ways in its responses, and it wasn’t before.
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