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So, Google already does this, right? And most of the feedback I've seen is: "how the hell do we turn this off".
Have you used perplexity? It is very useful, I rarely google stuff any more.
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So... more vaporware? :( Whatever happened to that new voice interface they "announced" back in May? I wish companies would stick to "releasing" things rather than "announcing" them...
I've definitely been using it for more than a month now. My kid loves using it as an impromptu space knowledge pop quiz game with a simple system prompt. Maybe it's released to paid users only? The only thing missing from the original announcement is voice interrupting the ongoing response (well and the Scarlett Johansson voice)
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I've definitely been using it for more than a month now. My kid loves using it as an impromptu space knowledge pop quiz game with a simple system prompt. Maybe it's released to paid users only? The only thing missing from the original announcement is voice interrupting the ongoing response (well and the Scarlett Johansson voice)
they've had voice to text to voice for a long time, the new thing was suppose to be a voice 2 voice transformer
I understand that website quality has gone down with respect to ads, but this really doesn't make the internet very inspiring if all outputs come in this format.
At least with Google I get to visit someone's website, view their content in the way they have designed it and perhaps even take a look around.
Could just be my view given all I know its Search > Website > Content.
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they've had voice to text to voice for a long time, the new thing was suppose to be a voice 2 voice transformer
yeah, exactly. It’s already available. Just open a ChatGPT 4o chat on the app and click the headphones icon on the lower right.
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they've had voice to text to voice for a long time, the new thing was suppose to be a voice 2 voice transformer
yeah, exactly. It’s already available. Just open a ChatGPT 4o chat on the app and click the headphones icon on the lower right.
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> Whatever happened to that new voice interface they "announced" back in May? Yeah, and it was suddenly made just the day before Google announced their models... and do you remember Sora? That was in February.
The voice interface is present in the mobile apps. They know how to release to get press coverage.
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You can do things "the right way" (find sources, critically think about the info) in either (or other things like books), the common denominator is the person using the tool not going off the first thing they read from the tool as gospel.
I don't know how fully I agree with this, to be honest. Or, yes, I do - but we obviously outsource a lot to the tools we use. Rightly or wrongly we expect our search engines to source good sources and high quality information. And that has been sort of inbred into people through years of internet use. Degrading the quality of the output of tools that were once considered reliable and safe is going to create problems,…
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Current search is great for facts, alright for generic questions, and annoying for answering something. AI has almost the inverse balance, pairing the two is a decent savings (and also what Bing/Google are trying to do from the opposite end of things). Whether this gets AI out of being a money pit remains to be seen.
> Current search is great for facts, alright for generic questions, and annoying for answering something. I feel like Google used to be pretty great at answering questions until they started pushing ads more aggressively into their results, and then intentionally gimping their results (for instance if you put quotes around a word Google will happily ignore it, whereas this used to actually be an enforced rule). I'm n…
Misaligned incentives will of course make either side worse but search engines ~2010 were (and now still are) far from being good solutions for all types of queries, they were just closer to being good than anything else we had for them.