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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

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I feel like everyone who has used a lot of AI tools has become accustomed to the LLM yap, but hearing it over TTS is much more annoying than when it's text you can skim through.

The yap factor is there, but they seem to be prompting this phone version to be more brief. I asked a few basic informational trivia questions and each response was 3 or four sentences. Less than the app or website version imo.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#162

This is a killer feature for me. In fact, I briefly explored building a semi-self hosted version for myself. My biggest use case for ChatGPT voice mode is when I _need_ or _want_ to be handsfree. Think working around the house/yard, Driving, Walking around the grocery store, cooking, etc. I find that I end up using my iPhone's voice-to-text then simply communicate with text mode (in the case of driving, I stop). Afte…

Same here.

How ironic that it's not actually Apple delivering that despite being in the perfect position to do so (they have a deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT using Siri, have all the contextual knowledge they could ever need etc.) – my iOS 18.2 Siri + ChatGPT experience has been extremely disappointing so far: It seems to completely forget all context between questions, ignores me for follow-up questions 80% of the time etc.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#163

OMG! Try calling from Microsoft Teams :D You will end up with, "Thanks for calling Agenta". Did OpenAI outsource and release this implementation with some of the company's internal phone numbers?

Not outsourced, I worked on it myself.

This is the old owner of the number. Some carriers are still routing it wrong.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#164
Seems gimmicky. An audio wrapper on top of ChatGPT accessible by phone... Neither technically impressive nor an improvement to user experience. Sorry for the negativity, I'm trying to remain AI hyped but it's difficult.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#167

OMG! Try calling from Microsoft Teams :D You will end up with, "Thanks for calling Agenta". Did OpenAI outsource and release this implementation with some of the company's internal phone numbers?

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Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#168
On coast to coast flights, there's often not a good way of knowing what movies are available until after you've left cell coverage. This makes simple research like checking the IMDb score challenging.

Alaska Air has a whitelist of messaging services that you can use for free during the flight. WhatsApp is on that list.

So if you want to research obscure plane movies on an Alaska flight, you can connect to their wifi and message either WhatsApp's built-in LLaMA or now ChatGPT.

Re: 1-800-ChatGPT

#169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 agree about an abundance of apps, but what type of value are LLMs adding? It can sometimes be useful to input a more "human" search and have something get spit out but 60% of the time it completely lies to you. I'm talking about questions related to web specifications which are public documents. Section numbers, standards names, etc.. will be completely made up.

That's because we're currently largely not using them correctly, i.e. hooked up to RAG instead of hoping that they've memorized enough of the training data verbatim, which is arguably a waste of neurons in a foundational model.

Imaging being graded on your ability to quote exact line numbers of particular parts of your codebase as a senior software engineer without being able to look at it!

LLMs are not, in isolation, a search product.

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