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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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Post by gzer0 »

gwd wrote: post #46
suyash wrote: post #29

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…

In retrospect, such startups should have been wary: they should have known that OpenAI had Whisper, and also that GPT-4 was designed with image modality. I wouldn't say that OpenAI "telegraphed" their intentions, but the very first strategic question should have been, "Why isn't OpenAI doing this already, and what do we do if they decide to start?"

It is interesting that these startups did not recognize that the image modalities already existed, as evidenced by their initial GPT-4 announcement underneath “visual capabilities” [1].

[1] https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

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

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Post by elicksaur »

mmahemoff wrote: post #102
nunobrito wrote: post #36

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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…

Trying that example, I’d much prefer just going to the Wikipedia page on London Bridge than trying to guess what phrases ChatGPT will respond well to in order to elicit more info. It’s initial response for me didn’t even mention one of the most interesting facts that people lived and worked on the bridge.

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

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Post by insanitybit »

I really want to have discussions about technical topics. I've talked to ChatGPT quite a lot about custom encoding algorithms, for example. The thing is, I want to do this while I play video games so ideally I'd say things to it.

My concern is that when I say "FastPFOR" it'll get transcribed as "fast before" or something like that. Transcription really falls apart in highly technical conversations in my experience. If ChatGPT can use context to understand that I'm saying "FastPFOR" that'll be a game changer for me.

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

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Post by flkenosad »

bamboozled wrote: post #110
skepticATX wrote: post #73

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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.

> 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 find this highly concerning but I feel similar. Even "smart people" I work with seem to have gulped down the LLM cool aid because it's convenient and it's "cool". Sometimes I honestly think: "just surrender to it all, believe in all the machine tells you unquestionably, forge…

The smart people I've seen using ChatGPT always double check the facts it gives. However, the truth is that RLHF works well to extinguish these lies over time. As more people use the platform and give feedback, the thing gets better. And now, I find it to be pretty darn accurate.

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Post by Closi »

blibble wrote: post #200
LeonM wrote: post #198

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They have been the fastest company ever to go from 0 to 100 million users. [0] They are also on pace to exceed $1B in revenue. [1] [0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste... [1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-passes-1-bill...

both of those are either estimated or anonymous sources not credible

Well they are a private company so you are going to have to evaluate it on that basis, but reuters is generally considered credible.

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

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Post by clbrmbr »

skepticATX wrote: post #164
clbrmbr wrote: post #33

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And then the wedding speech. What are they thinking over there at OpenAI? This is supposed to be a productivity enhancer, not a way to outsource the most meaningful applications of human language…

> What are they thinking over there at OpenAI? I know this is rhetorical, but luckily we don't have to speculate. OpenAI filters for a very specific philosophy when hiring, and they don't try to hide it. This is not me passing judgement on whether said philosophy is right or wrong, but it does exist and it's not hidden.

Actually, can you expand on this? What philosophy leads one to put the bedtime story example on top?

I’m genuinely curious about the different political/spiritual views that are growing up around AI. So maybe my question was not so rhetorical.

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

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Post by chankstein38 »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #39
suyash wrote: post #29

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…

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've wanted a ChatGPT Pod equivalent to a Google Home pod for a while! I have been intending to build it at some point. I am with you, talking to Google sucks.

"Hey Google, why do ____ happen?" "I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that"

But you're GOOGLE! Google it! What the heck lol

So yeah, ChatGPT being able to hear what I say and give me info about it would be great! My holdup has been wakewords.

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Post by dist-epoch »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #127
dmd wrote: post #49

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I also don't believe LLMs are "conscious", but I also don't know what that means, and I have yet to see a definition of "statistically guessing next word" that cannot be applied to what a human brain does to generate the next word.

I believe that the distinguishing factor between what an LLM and a human brain do to generate the next word is that the human brain expresses intentionality originating from inner states and future expectations. As I type this comment I'm sure one could argue that the biological neural networks in my brain are choosing the next word based on statistical guessing, and that the initial prompt was your initial comment.…

When you eat, do you eat because you've decided to express yourself in that way? Does you action to go eating express intentionally?

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Post by phkahler »

HenryBemis wrote: post #86
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #26

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I read this all the time and yet no one can seem to come up with even a few questions from several months ago that ChatGPT has become “worse” at. You would think if this is happening it would be very easy to produce such evidence since chat history of all conversations is stored by default.

Here is one. I ask it to write some code. 4-5 pages long. With some back & forth it does. Then I ask "change lines 50-65 from blue to red", and it does (change#1). I ask it to show me the full code. Then I ask "change lines 100-120 from yellow to green". Aaaaand it makes the change#2 and revokes the change#1. Oh!! the amount of times this has happened.. So now I ask it to make a change, I do it by 'paragraph' and I c…

I haven't used it, but can't you just say "OK, use that as the new baseline from here on." Or something similar?
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