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I guess it's a phased rollout, since my Plus subscription doesn't have access to it yet.
"We will be expanding access Plus and Enterprise users will get to experience voice and images in the next two weeks. We’re excited to roll out these capabilities to other groups of users, including developers, soon after."
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…
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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…
Ah yes, I dont understand how to talk to people either!
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> how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value Like talking to most people you mean?
When OpenAI buys me a drink at the bar in exchange for the rubbish it produces, I might have a more favourable view.
You will now be able to feed it images and responses of the customers. Give it a function to call complementaryDrink(customerId) Combine it with a simple vending machine style robot or something more complex that can mix drinks.
I'm not actually in a hurry to try to replace bartenders. Just saying these types of things immediately become more feasible.
You can also see the possibilities of the speech input and output for "virtual girlfriends". I assume someone at OpenAI must have been tempted to train a model on Scarlett Johansson's voice.
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.
- Make it process customer-support requests.
- Make a virtual nurse for when you call the clinic.
- Make it process visa applications, particularly the part about interviews ("I know you weren't born back then, but I must ask. Did you support the Nazis in 1942? There is only one right answer and is not what you think!")
- Make it do job interviews. How will you feel after the next recession, when you are searching for a job and spend the best part of a year doing leetcode interviews with "AI-interviewer" half-assedly grading your answers?
- Make it flip burgers at McDonalds.
- Make it process insurance claims and ask bobby-trap questions like "did the airline book you in a later trip? Yes? Was that the next day? Oh, that's bad. But, was it before 3:00 PM? Ah, well, you have no right to claim since you weren't delayed for more than 24 hours. Before you go, can you teach me which of these images depict objects you are willing to suck? If you do, I promise I'll be more 'human' next time."
- Make it watch aggregated camera fees across cities around the world to see what that guy with the hat is up to.
- Make some low-cost daleks to watch for trouble-makers at the concert, put the AI inside.
In all cases, the pattern is not "AI is inherently devious and is coming for you, but "human trains devious AI and puts it in control to save costs".
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What LLMs have made me realize more than anything is that we just don't care that much the information we receive being completely factual. I have tried to use it many times to learn a topic, and my experience has been that it is either frustratingly vague or incorrect. It's not a tool that I can completely add to my workflow until it is reliable, but I seem to be the odd one out.
I think this post-factual attitude is stronger and more common in some cultures than others. I'm afraid to say but given my extensive travels it appears American culture (and its derivatives in other countries) seems to be spearheading this shift.
I think it's because Americans, more than nearly all other cultures, love convenience. It's why the love for driving is so strong in the US. Don't walk or ride, drive.
Once I was walking back from the grocer in Florida with 4 shopping bags, and people pulled over and asked if my car had broken down and if I needed a ride, people were stunned...I was walking for exercise and for the environment...and I was stunned.
More evidence of this trend can be seen in the products and marketing being produced:
Do you need to write a wedding speech? Click here.
Do you need to go get something from the store? get your fat ass in the car and drive, better yet, get a car that drives for you? Better than this, we'll deliver it with a drone...don't move a muscle.
Don't want to do your homework? Here...
Want to produce art? Please enter your prompt...
Want to lose weight? We have a drug for that...
Want to be the authority on some topic? We'll generate the facts you need.
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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.
A person who uses ChatGPT must have the understanding that it's not like Google search. The layman, however, has no idea that ChatGPT can give coherent incorrect information and treats the information as true.
Most people won't use it for infotainment and OpenAI will try its best to downplay the hallucination as fine print if it goes fully mainstream like google search.
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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.
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This is funny, because I find it much less cumbersome to type a few search terms into a search engine and explore the links it spits out.
It depends on the subject but search engines are on the decline. With so many fake website written by AI I can only see it get worse. The most extreme I can think of is when I want to find when a show comes out and I have to read 10 paragraphs from 5 different sites to realize no one knows.
I found that you can be pretty sure no one knows if it’s not already right on the results page. And if the displayed quote for a link on the results page is something like “wondering when show X is coming out?”, then it’s also a safe bet that clicking that link will be useless.
You learn those patterns fast, and then the search is fast as well.
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 wha…
Another option is that this doesn't replace the student's work, but the teacher's. The single greatest use I have found for ChatGPT is in educating myself on various topics, hosting a socratic seminar where I am questioning ChatGPT in order to learn about X. Of course this could radically change a student's ability to generate homework etc, but this could also radically change how the student learns in the first plac…