Reminds me of 1-800-MY-YAHOO. I remember hiking in a national park in the 90s and calling in from a pay phone and having my email read to me over the phone by a robot. I could record an audio response that was sent back as an attachment. Good times!
1-800-ChatGPT
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Must have been tough thinking of an easy to remember phone number, and this ain’t it.
It made more sense at the time. 411 is an actual directory service (similar to dialing 0 for the operator). [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)
What's the haps? What's the skinney? What's the 411?
3 questions that Gen-Zers probably have never heard asked and will never ask themselves
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> a bunch of apps that just aim to be mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service Isn't this the new LLM playbook?
How so? I pay Claude/ChatGPT trivial amounts of money for metered API access to their models, and they in turn provide it to me. Middlemen/marketplace models like "Uber for x" or "Etsy for x" or "Betterhelp for x" is a totally different business model.
I had in mind the surge in LLM chat support and the surge in thin ChatGPT wrappers with a custom system prompt. Claude/ChatGPT do seem useful, "an AI companion for Microsoft Paint" less so.
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#194Seems 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.
why are you "trying to remain AI hyped"?
Because hype is exciting and excitement is the spice of life
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#196Not an AI fan, but damn it if this isn't really fucking cool and a great way to build up training data. Great job, OpenAI folks!
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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…
I will personally say that if you ever get the chance, definitely try a Waymo. I did recently for the first time and it's a hell of an experience. You can very vividly imagine it being the future. I'm also going to stand up for AR/VR here. I'm in a long-distance relationship and me and my partner spend an hour or so in VRChat around two to three times a week. The power that has to reduce the badness of an LDR is well…
I am super stoked to try a Waymo when I'm in a city with one. It's hype failures have more to do with 10 years of hype about its public availability yet not being available to 99% of the world's population 10 years later. Hype is useless without the result.
I've had an HTC Vive and an Oculus Rift 3 (Walkabout Mini Golf is one I tried!) and while I wouldn't try to argue NOBODY has found a use for it (somebody somewhere found uses for all of the things I mentioned, just not me and just not the majority of people like big new things are promised to) it never really ticked the "new value" box before they ended up in the closet for me.
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#198Calling it now: Google will ultimately lose this consumer battle. How? By doing what they've always done: building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features; but they will continue to fail to productize or explain it to consumers. Google's offerings here are still a huge mess. OpenAI is crushing them right now at building products that people want, and making them accessible.
> Calling it now
At first I thought you meant that literally. ;)
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Off the top of my head, and just for the last couple of months, and only outside of work (where its value is even more immense), it has saved one of my indoor plants, told me how to handle a major boiler problem that would have left us without a working boiler during a weekend in the winder, with the next "emergency" repairman only available on Monday, advised me to use Kopia as backup solution for my personal files…
Yes, but which of those things would you not have resolved just as well 10 years ago? All those possibilities were added by the maturing web itself, as a genuinely novel change from having to source books or experts/friends in the days before. I'm glad ChatGPT didn't lead you astray, but I'm not seeing what it's added here besides shuffling up the user interface in a way that you presently and subjectively prefer?
My plant would have been dead. As for the rest, sure, I would have resolved them eventually, after many frustrated hours of googling and trial and error.
Time is my most precious thing, I already don't have enough time to do all the things that I want to do, I don't want to waste that trying to find and test solutions when ChatGPT gives me instant answers. I'd rather spend time playing with my cats or riding a bike instead. It's not a matter of UI, it's a matter of preventing waste of time, energy and money, and less frustration. For that alone, €20/month is a very good value. And that's just for my personal life.
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> someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers I know people who are in their 20s and 30s who seem to be uncomfortable with computers, cloud technology, and especially AI. In some ways I'm one of them. I will never let an always listening AI helper be in my home. And I'm <40.
That’s different. One is fear of the unknown, the other is a precautionary fear of what could be.
Not really. A lot of people in their 20s might have never actually done much with a computer, yet they cannot put their phone down. I know lots of 20-somethings that cannot type. I know even more that do not own a traditional "computer". It has nothing to do with fear, but lack of need.