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Re: GPT-4o

#41
Did they provide the limit rate for free user ?

Because I have the plus membership which is expensive (25$/month).

But if the limit is high enough (or my usage low enough), there is no point for paying that much money for me.

Re: GPT-4o

#42
Does anyone know how they're doing the audio part where Mark breaths too hard? Does his breathing get turned into all-caps text (AA EE OO) and that GPT4-o interprets that as him breathing too hard, or is there something more going on?

Re: GPT-4o

#43
post #24

The most impressive part is that the voice uses the right feelings and tonal language during the presentation. I'm not sure how much of that was that they had tested this over and over, but it is really hard to get that right so if they didn't fake it in some way I'd say that is revolutionary.

(I work at OpenAI.)

It's really how it works.

Re: GPT-4o

#44
Very impressed by the demo where it starts speaking French in error, then laughs with the user about the mistake. Such a natural recovery.

Re: GPT-4o

#45
post #24

The most impressive part is that the voice uses the right feelings and tonal language during the presentation. I'm not sure how much of that was that they had tested this over and over, but it is really hard to get that right so if they didn't fake it in some way I'd say that is revolutionary.

>The most impressive part is that the voice uses the right feelings and tonal language during the presentation.

Consequences of audio2audio (rather than audio >text text>audio). Being able to manipulate speech nearly as well as it manipulates text is something else. This will be a revelation for language learning amongst other things. And you can interrupt it freely now!

Re: GPT-4o

#46
> We recognize that GPT-4o’s audio modalities present a variety of novel risks

> For example, at launch, audio outputs will be limited to a selection of preset voices and will abide by our existing safety policies.

I wonder if they’ll ever allow truly custom voices from audio samples.

Re: GPT-4o

#47
The price of 4o is 50% of GPT4-Turbo (and no mention of price change to gp4-turbo itself).

Given the competitive pressures I was expecting a much bigger price drop than that.

For non-multimodal uses, I don't think their API is at all competitive any more.

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#48
post #27

Parts of the demo were quite choppy (latency?) so this definitely feels rushed in response to Google I/O. Other than that, looks good. Desktop app is great, but I didn’t see no mention of being able to use your own API key so OS projects might still be needed. The biggest thing is bringing GPT-4 to free users, that is an interesting move. Depending on what the limits are, I might cancel my subscription.

Seems like it was picking up on the audience reaction and stopping to listen.

To me the more troubling thing was the apparent hallucination (saying it sees the equation before he wrote it, commenting on an outfit when the camera was down, describing a table instead of his expression), but that might have just been latency awkwardness. Overall, the fast response is extremely impressive, as is the new emotional dimension of the voice.

Re: GPT-4o

#49

As I commented in the other thread, really really disappointed there's no intelligence update and more of a focus on "gimmicks". The desktop app did look really good, especially as the models get smarter. Will be canceling my premium as there's no real purpose of it until that new "flag ship" model comes out.

Agree on hoping for an intelligence update, but I think it was clear from teasers that this was not gonna be GPT-5.

I'm not sure how fair it is to classify the new multimodal capabilities as just a gimmick though. I personally haven't integrated GPT-4 into my workflow that much and the latency and the fact I have to type a query out is a big reason why.

Re: GPT-4o

#50
Universal real time translation is incredibly dope.

I hate video players without volume control.

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