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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 throeaaysn »

jefftk wrote: post #329
ecshafer wrote: post #238

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Voice assistants have always been a half complete product. They were shown off as a cool feature, then they were never integrated so they were useful. The two biggest features I want are for the voice assistants to read something for me, and to do something on google/Apple Maps hand free. Neither of these ever work. “Siri/ ok google add the next gas station on the route” or “take me to the Chinese restaurant in Hobok…

> ok google add the next gas station on the route I say "ok google, add a stop for gas" a lot, and it works well for me.

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Post by jameslk »

Kids are using tools like these to learn. Who gets to control the information in these models that are taught? Especially around political topics?

Not an issue now, but maybe in the future if these tools end up becoming full blown replacements of educators and educational resources.

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Post by unsupp0rted »

caoilte wrote: post #120
unsupp0rted wrote: post #92

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One cool aspect of LLMs is Vernon Vinge's programming archaeology needn't be a thing... LLMs can go down every code path and identify what it does, when it was added, and whether it's still needed.

It might even be correct. Occasionally.

You think even ten years from now, much less 1,000 years from now, whatever LLMs turn into won’t be at least as capable as the best human of following code paths?

We can spin up a million of them and run them at 10,000x speed.

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Post by throeaaysn »

3c0 wrote: post #122
rubslopes wrote: post #84

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I've replaced my voice google assistant searches with the voice feature of the Bing app. It's a night and day difference. Bing voice is what I always expected from an AI companion of the future, it is just lacking commands -- setting tasks, home automation, etc.

precisely this. once someone figures out how to get something like GPT integrated with actual products like smart home devices and the same access levels as siri/google assistant, it will be the true voice assistant experience everyone has wanted.

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Post by sebzim4500 »

skepticATX wrote: post #233
sebzim4500 wrote: post #213

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>OpenAI filters for a very specific philosophy when hiring, and they don't try to hide it. Do you have evidence for this? I know two people who work at OpenAI and I don't think they have much in common philosophically.

> It’s not fair to call OpenAI a cult, but when I asked several of the company’s top brass if someone could comfortably work there if they didn’t believe AGI was truly coming—and that its arrival would mark one of the greatest moments in human history—most executives didn’t think so. Why would a nonbeliever want to work here? they wondered. The assumption is that the workforce—now at approximately 500, though it migh…

>I asked several of the company’s top brass if someone could comfortably work there if they didn’t believe AGI was truly coming—and that its arrival would mark one of the greatest moments in human history—most executives didn’t think so.

No shit? How many people worked on the apollo program and believed that

(i) Getting to the moon is impossible

or

(ii) Landing on the moon is no big deal

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Post by ben_w »

kranke155 wrote: post #322
skeeter2020 wrote: post #272

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Considering the field and progress that is being made I find this idea terrifying. All the big problems like "How will we actually control what we're building?" being answered "that's too hard; let's punt and solve that after we figure out how to consume voice data". One way or another this is likely the last technological advance that humans will make.

The last technological advance that humans will make? What gives you that impression

I don't know if @skeeter2020's assertion is correct, but it is certainly the goal.

To use a fictional but entirely apt quote:

> I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

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Post by DharmaPolice »

huijzer wrote: post #186
bamboozled wrote: post #110

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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 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…

> just surrender to it all, believe in all the machine tells you unquestionably, forget the fact checking, it feels good to be ignorant... it will be fine... It's the same issue with Google Search, any web page, or, heck, any book. Fact checking gets you only so far. You need critical thinking. It's okay to "learn" wrong facts from time to time as long as you are willing to be critical and throw the ideas away if the…

The issue is far more serious with ChatGPT/similar models because things that are laughably untrue are delivered exactly the same as something that's solidly true. When doing a normal search I can make some assessment on the quality of the source and the likelihood the source is wrong.

People should be able "throw the ideas away if they turn out to be wrong" but the problem is these ideas unconsciously or not help build your model of the world. Once you find out something isn't true it's hard to unpick your mental model of the world.

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Post by birracerveza »

surfingdino wrote: post #375

I can imagine people using these new capabilities to diagnose skin conditions. Should dermatologists be worried?

They should be worried about what they're gonna do with all their free time, now that they have a tool that helps them identify skin conditions much faster than ever before.

Same as programmers and artists.

It's a tool.

It must be used by humans.

It won't replace them, it will augment them.

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Post by sebzim4500 »

ZiiS wrote: post #335
hombre_fatal wrote: post #299

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The peanut gallery could (and does) say this about 1000 little features that 1000 different people claim to be so necessary that OpenAI is incompetent for not having, yet none of those people agree that those other features are priorities.

They could hire 1000 new developers a month and still be understaffed vs any company in history with thier valuation.

The fact that they are so succesful despite their low headcount is an argument that there are advantages to keeping the headcount low.

I'm sure we've all seen companies grow too fast become less productive than when there were a ten person startup.

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