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

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Post by denlekke »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #148
vore wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions. Probably don't want to start quoting hallucinated facts!

Good thing podcasts never have false/misleading information on them...

they definitely do but i think in podcasts i generally have a better ability to evaluate how much trust i should place in what i'm hearing. i know if i'm listening to a professional chef podcast, i can probably trust they will generally be right talking about how they like to bake a turkey. if i'm listening to the hot wings guy interview zac efron i know to be less blindly trusting of their info on astrophysics.

with chatgpt i don't know it's "experience" or "education" on a topic and it has no social accountability motivating it to make sure it gets things right so i can't estimate how much i should trust it in the same way.

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Post by lynx23 »

pjerem wrote: post #177

One of the reason i don’t want openAI to die isn’t only the (impressive) power of GPT-4. Actually, it’s the mobile application. They should have opted for a boring PWA but instead they developed a nice native application with good UI/UX. I also appreciate that they created integrations with the Shortcuts app which allows you to do make very powerful things. I really hope they extends this because it’s text only for n…

I wish I could use the mobile app on iOS. Getting a weird error when trying to login, something about date/time being wrong on my device. Since date/time is autosynced, it must be something else. I wonder why I have this tendency to hit on bugs that nobody else has...

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

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Post by WendyTheWillow »

denlekke wrote: post #181
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good thing podcasts never have false/misleading information on them...

they definitely do but i think in podcasts i generally have a better ability to evaluate how much trust i should place in what i'm hearing. i know if i'm listening to a professional chef podcast, i can probably trust they will generally be right talking about how they like to bake a turkey. if i'm listening to the hot wings guy interview zac efron i know to be less blindly trusting of their info on astrophysics. with…

I guarantee ChatGPT won't lie to you about how to bake a turkey.

The paranoia around hallucination is wildly overblown, especially given the low stakes of this context.

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Post by I_am_tiberius »

gettodachoppa wrote: post #178
lagt_t wrote: post #136

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Why aren't you complaining about what happens to your HN posts?

It's a spectrum, not a binary. They may not care about HN posts because: 1. We're anonymous here (by default) 2. You can't be fingerprinted from your HN posts the way you can be with your unique voice

I'm pretty sure hackernews posts can be used as a unique fingerprint, especially by a party who collects sensitive text information like chatbot conversations.

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

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Post by da39a3ee »

vore wrote: post #142
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…

How can you tell if ChatGPT is lying to you and what you're learning is total hogwash?

If you've used it a lot this year for coding like many people, you'll have found that you develop the ability to know when it doesn't know what it talks about.

Perhaps you're one of the people who think they're above it, and hence haven't developed that ability?

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Post by isolli »

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.

For a second there, I genuinely thought you had a very smart dog!

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Post by da39a3ee »

15457345234 wrote: post #97
Tycho wrote: post #5

I enjoy using the voice mode to learn about subjects when I’m driving.

Does it tell you the truth, or just stuff that sounds right?

Have you not been using chatGPT for programming questions this year? The implied criticism you're making became out of date when GPT4 was released. Of course, it makes things up when you stretch it, but the utility is no longer in question. What did you think all the fuss has been about?

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

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Post by da39a3ee »

breadwinner wrote: post #78

You can ask questions in any language and it automatically detects the language! Tried it and it works amazingly well. It replies in English though.

It replies in the language it thinks follows from what you said. It may have detected that you're non-English languages sounded like an English speaker?

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Post by 4ggr0 »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #170
Martinussen wrote: post #165

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Listen to better podcasts. :P

It's a mistake to listen to a podcast to learn important information.

That's just like, your opinion, man.

There are podcasts for almost every topic where experts are present. Journalists, Scientists, Activists, Researchers etc. can be heard in podcasts, I don't really see why it's generally a mistake to listen to a podcast to learn important information.

During the pandemic my partner was attending university from home and listening to their professors via MS Teams, these classes were also recorded so that they could listen to them at a later point. In some ways that's just a professional podcast.

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