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Post by yieldcrv »

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…

> 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

This is why I could never get “into podcasts”

Which apparently can mean 100 different things, but some popular radio talk show style ones I’ve been exposed to are just two guys rambling about a topic for two hours with lots of filler, where one person is essentially reading a Wikipedia article but getting interrupted every 5 words by the other, to go on - what are supposed to be - comical tangents.

Like, this could have been a 30 second sentence.

Far too frustrating for me.

I get exposed to them on long car rides with other people and that’s shaped my entire opinion.

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Post by colechristensen »

resonious wrote: post #195
vore wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Might be able to ask the same question to someone listening to real podcasts.

“These people have no idea what they’re talking about” is a frequent reaction to podcasts I hear. To the point that there are very few I want to keep listening to.

ChatGPT lies to me but only in a specific way.

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Post by pmx »

lynx23 wrote: post #182
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...

Could there be a MITM on your connection? That could cause SSL errors that may be reported as "make sure your date and time are correct"

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Post by superultra »

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

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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...

One thing that could happen, sooner rather than later, is that agents are deployed that have access to a facial database of information relevant to the topic. So, there could be a GPT of that day’s NYT Daily with a high ranked database of info on, say, Israel and Hamas, and the text synthesis generates an overview but the user can “ask” for clarifying details to drill down, and responses.

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Post by colechristensen »

vore wrote: post #150
WendyTheWillow wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is an absurd argument that you are just making for the sake of argument and you know it. There's a difference between someone getting things wrong and a LLM shamelessly making something up out of the whole cloth.

The kinds of mistakes an LLM makes aren’t nearly as bad as the kind of nonsense you can find humans saying, particularly in podcasts.

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Post by speedywaiverapp »

modeless wrote: post #57

It's possible to run a voice AI similar to this entirely locally on a normal gaming PC with a good GPU using open source AI models. I have a standalone demo I've been working on that you can try if you have a 12GB+ Nvidia GPU: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NC624PBFGB7 It's still very much a demo and not as good as GPT-4, but it responds much faster. It's fun to play with and it shows the promise. Open models hav…

Would love to see a video of this ...

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Post by superultra »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #143
vore wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I imagine the stakes of rewriting the Star Wars films are sufficiently low that this risk is acceptable...

My 15-year old loves the Percy Jackson series, and he said that the audio conversation he had with ChatGPT was the first time he felt like like “someone” “got” Percy Jackson, in “real life.” Lots of airquotes there because there isn’t a someone, and ChatGPT doesn’t get it, and what is real even? But the conversation was so good that my 15-year is now totally creeped out by ChatGPT and refused to use it after that that 30 min conversation.

You take about low stakes but fiction is a massive industry. In making what is essentially Star Wars fanfic with ChatGPT, I’ve realized why AI was such a contentious point for the recent writers strikes.

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Post by tkgally »

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…

> I’ll just pick a topic and then ask for a summary and then ask clarifying questions.

I made a public GPT for a similar purpose. Some examples of my conversations with it:

https://youtube.com/@Tom_Gally_UTokyo

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Post by denlekke »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #183
denlekke wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

i appreciate your confidence and would love to know how far you would go with the guarantee ! it makes me realize that there is at least one avenue for some level of trust about gpt accuracy and that's my general awareness of how much written content on the topic it probably had access to during training.

i think maybe your earlier comment was about the average trustworthiness of all podcasts vs the same for all gpt responses. i would probably side with gpt4 in that context.

however, there are plenty of situations where the comparison is between a podcast from the best human in the world at something and gpt which might have less training data or maybe the risks for the topic aren't eating an uncooked turkey but learning cpr wrong or having an airbag not deploy

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Post by gtirloni »

guiambros wrote: post #98
gtirloni wrote: post #40

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The Brazilian Portuguese accent was hilarious when I tried it a month ago. We thought it was some kind of joke we didn't understand.

Just tried now, and it was pretty good. Some slight accent that I wasn't able to detect (Minas Gerais?). Similar / better than the artificial voice of other assistants in pt-br. I'm using Sky's voice, FWIW.

When I tried it right when it was released, it was some really heavy accent from Piracicaba. People there talk like that but ChatGPT seemed to be doing a forced impression of that.

It seems similar to what other commenters are saying about it taking in German with an American accent.

It's no big deal but Siri/Google/Alexa voices are better normalized, IMHO. I don't mind heavy accents at all in humans but they get annoying after a while for a voice assistants, especially if it's not my accent :)

I tried it now but it doesn't seem to be working for me. Maybe related to the outage yesterday (is it still going on?). It just listens but never replied.

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