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We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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I'm following on trying to understand how close I am to developing my personal coding assistant I can speak with. Doesn't really need to do much besides writing down my tasks/todos and updating them, occasionally maybe provide feedback or write a code snippet. This all seems in the current capabilities of OpenAI's offering. Sadly voice chat is still not available on PC where I do my development.

My open source AI coding tool aider has had voice-to-code for awhile:

https://aider.chat/docs/voice.html

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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Now just throw this into a humanoid looking robot with fine motor skills and we are halfway to a dystopian hellscape that is now only years away instead of decades. What a time to be alive.

The Boston dynamics/openai collaboration for the apocalypse we’ve all been waiting for!

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Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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I still don't understand how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value? The other day I asked it about the place I live and it made up nonsense, I was trying to get it to help me with an essay and it was just wrong, it was telling me things about this region that weren't real. Do we just drive through a town, ask for a made up history about it and just be satisf…

Joe Rogan has made tons of money off talking without providing factual information. Hollywood has also made tons of money off movies "inspired by real events" that hallucinate key facts relevant to the movie's plot and characters. There's a huge market for infotainment that is "inspired by facts" but doesn't even try to be accurate.

Wait until you learn about the mainstream media.

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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This is the dagger that will make online schooling unviable.

ChatGPT already made it so that you could easily copy & paste any full-text questions and receive an answer with 90% accuracy. The only flaw was that problems that also used diagrams or figures would be out of the domain of ChatGPT.

With image support, students could just take screenshots or document scans and have ChatGPT give them a valid answer. From what I’ve seen, more students than not will gladly abuse this functionality. The counter would be to either leave the grading system behind, or to force in-person schooling with no homework, only supervised schoolwork.

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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My biggest complaint with OpenAI/ChatGPT is their horrible "marketing" (for lack of a better term). They announce stuff like this (or like plugins), I get excited, I go to use it, it hasn't rolled out to me yet (which is frustrating as a paying customer), and my only recourse is.... check back daily? They never send an email "Plugins are available for you!", "Voice chat is now enabled on your account!" and so often I forget about the new feature unless I stumble across it later.

Just now I opened the app, went to setting, went to "New Features", and all I saw was Bing Browsing disabled (unable to enable). Ok, I didn't even know that was a thing that worked at one point. Maybe I need an update? Go to the App Store, nope, I'm up to to date. Kill the app, relaunch, open settings, now "New Features" isn't even listed. I can promise you I won't be browsing the settings part of this app regularly to see if there is a new feature. Heck, not only do they not email/push about new features they don't even message in-app about them, I really don't understand.

Maybe they are doing so well they don't have to care about communicating with customer right now but it really annoys me and I wish they did better.

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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This announcement seem to have killed so many startups that were trying to do multi-modal on top of ChatGPT. The way it's progressing with solving use cases with images and voice, not too far when it might be the 'one app to rule them all'. I can already see "Alexa/Siri/Google Home" replacement, "Google Image Search" replacement, ed-tech startups that were solving problems with AI using by taking a photo are also doo…

I never understood why they thought that this wouldn’t happen.

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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It already replaced search engines. So much easier to write the question and explore the answers until it is solved.

Took me a while to realise I can just type search queries into ChatGPT. e.g. simply "london bridge history" or whatever into the chat and not only get a complete answer, but I can ask it follow-up questions. And it's also personalised for the kinds of responses I want, thanks to the custom instructions setting. ChatGPT is my primary search engine now. (I just wish it would accept a URL query parameter so it could be…

YMMV. For my case on software development, I don't even look on stackoverflow anymore.

Just type the tech question, start refining into what is needed and get a snippet of code tailored for what is needed. What previously would take 30 to 60 minutes of research and testing is now less than a couple of minutes.

Re: We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT

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Talking to Google and Siri has been positively frustrating this year. On long solo drives, I just want to have a conversation to learn about random things. I've been itching to "talk" to chatGPT and learn more (french | music theory | history | math | whatever) all summer. This should hit the spot!

I still don't understand how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value? The other day I asked it about the place I live and it made up nonsense, I was trying to get it to help me with an essay and it was just wrong, it was telling me things about this region that weren't real. Do we just drive through a town, ask for a made up history about it and just be satisf…

Pay for the Plus version.

Then it makes stuff up far less frequently.

If the next version has the same step up in performance, I will no longer consider inaccuracy an issue - even the best books have mistakes in them, they just need to be infrequent enough.

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Okay the bike example is cute and impressive, but the human interaction seems to be obfuscating the potentially bigger application. With a few tweaks this is a general purpose solver for robotics planning. There are still a few hard problems between this and a working solution, but it is one of hard problems solved. Will we be seeing general purpose robots performing simple labor powered by chatgpt within the next ha…

> With a few tweaks this is a general purpose solver for robotics planning. Yeah, but with an enormous ecological footprint. Also, not suitable for small lightweight robots like drones.

Even on something the size of a car chatgpt won't be running locally, the car and drone are equally capable of hitting openai's API in a well connected environment.

What needs to happen with the response is a different matter though.

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