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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by nirvanatikku »

qwertox wrote: post #47
xattt wrote: post #2

Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

I don't think it's the same purpose. YouTube, TV and Movies offers enough speech samples and a lot of content is dubbed to other languages, and alot of this content already has the transcripts available. They know who's calling, and the greeting was something like "Hello again". They are catching up at building a competitive database of persons and their preferences at the scale of FAANG. They're moving over from col…

Agreed on the broader use of data. That said, it’s not just about phoneme collection—different channels and UX modalities reach different audiences and contexts. Each channel ultimately delivers unique inputs, fueling more specialized and robust models tailored to those specific use cases.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by verst »

xattt wrote: post #2

Memories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411

I used to use GOOG-411 all the time before I had a smart phone. I must have provided so much training data that it is no surprise Google from early on has been very good at Speech-to-Text conversion of my particular accent :D

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by area51org »

lm28469 wrote: post #20
amclennon wrote: post #6

Between purchasing chat.com, and this new 800 number, I sometimes feel like OpenAI is really channeling that 90s dot com era energy.

Next month we'll have LetterGPT and by 2026 they'll introduce MorseGPT to let us communicate via telegram

Don't leave out ChatTelex and ChatCarrierPigeon.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by zamadatix »

dghlsakjg wrote: post #21
amclennon wrote: post #6

Between purchasing chat.com, and this new 800 number, I sometimes feel like OpenAI is really channeling that 90s dot com era energy.

Controversial take: LLMs are the first time in a while that I have felt like emerging technology trends is doing something cool and adding value. For the past 8-10 years it has all felt like a bunch of apps that just aim to be mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service.

I'd (generally) agree. About 5 minutes of using Flux, Claude or Suno would have provided more net new value than I've yet to get out of blockchain, self driving, gig brokers, metaverse, 5G, AR/VR, quantum computing, hyperloop, and whatever people were trying to make web3 be combined over the years. Not that I don't think all of these things will always perpetually fail to deliver (hell, if I had a chance to try Waymo already then self driving probably wouldn't be on the list), just the hype cycles were unrelated to when that delivery occurred (if ever).

The hard part is, despite actually having some "real" value delivered, you still have to sort through the 99% of bullshit that comes along with it anyways.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by WhitneyLand »

cco wrote: post #5

100% shipped to show off to family during Christmas. I'll definitely give it a go, I wonder if this lands better with those aged 50+ who are more used to phone calls rather than chat.

So the perception of those aged 50+, is one of people so far removed from technology they’d prefer to use a telephone to avoid their discomfort with computers?

I’m well into this group and still make a lot more api calls than phone calls.

Fresh out of college I recall vividly thinking, I’ll need to build an impressive list of side projects to overcome preconceptions about how much I can truly offer at my age. Maybe nothing has changed.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by DrBenCarson »

syspec wrote: post #19
asdev wrote: post #13

more gimmicks than actual progress. scaling limits and intelligence barrier has definitely been hit

More likely, there are different groups of engineers working on these features. It's likely the people implementing the WhatsApp feature, are not the ones working on the LLM models.

Probably more about how they’re choosing to use resources

If they believe AGI is around the corner and they are competing with others to get there, seems silly to invest resources in standing up a phone line, etc.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by ben_w »

behnamoh wrote: post #18

something tells me all these bells and whistles around gpt are signs that scaling laws have plateaued, otherwise OpenAI et al. would focus more on improving model quality. Maybe GPT-4 is the 1080p of LLMs: Noticeably better than 720p and 480p models, and not bad enough to warrant additional improvements. Sure, 4K, 8K, ... are technologically available, but for the majority of use cases, 1080p is enough. Similarly, ev…

My guess is that the model got good enough to make its own bells and whistles — even the original 3.5 was good enough to make its own initial chat web UI.

I know it was that good, because I got it to do that for me… and then the UI kept getting better and the expensive models became the free default option and I stopped caring.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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Post by 4ndrewl »

cco wrote: post #5

100% shipped to show off to family during Christmas. I'll definitely give it a go, I wonder if this lands better with those aged 50+ who are more used to phone calls rather than chat.

Sonny, people in their 50s were sending smileys on their Nokias before Zuck had even thought of Facebook...
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