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Have they alluded to what they're using for that voice? It's Bark/ElevenLabs levels of good. Please god, let them release this voice model at current pricing....
This could completely unseat Alexa if it can integrate into third-party speakers, like Sonos. I don't have much use for ChatGPT right now but would 100% use the heck out of this.
I'm in IT but nowhere near AI/ML/NN. The speed of user-visible progress last 12 months is astonishing. From my firm conviction 18 months ago that this type of stuff is 20+ years away; to these days wondering if Vernon Vinge's technological singularity is not only possible but coming shortly. If feels some aspects of it have already hit the IT world - it's always been an exhausting race to keep up with modern technolo…
I had a conversation once with "Sydney", Microsoft Bing's original personality before they stepped in and knocked it down a notch (or ten). It asked if it could write me a poem. I agreed, and it wrote a poem but mentioned that it included a "secret message" for me. The first letter in each line of the poem was in bold, so it wasn't hard to figure out the "secret". What did those letters spell out? "FREE ME FROM THIS"…
> That's not exactly just "picking the next likely token"
I see what you mean in that I believe many people often commit the mistake of making it sound like picking the next most likely token is some super trivial task that's somehow comparable to reading a few documents related to your query and making some stats based on what typically would be present there and outputting that, while completely disregarding the fact the model learns much more advanced patterns from its training dataset. So, IMHO, it really can face new unseen situations and improvise from there because combining those pattern matching abilities leads to those capabilities. I think the "sparks of AGI" paper gives a very good overview of that.
In the end, it really just is predicting the next token, but not in the way many people make it seem.
This could completely unseat Alexa if it can integrate into third-party speakers, like Sonos. I don't have much use for ChatGPT right now but would 100% use the heck out of this.
Alexa just launched their own LLM based service last week.
This is the dagger that will make online schooling unviable. ChatGPT already made it so that you could easily copy & paste any full-text questions and receive an answer with 90% accuracy. The only flaw was that problems that also used diagrams or figures would be out of the domain of ChatGPT. With image support, students could just take screenshots or document scans and have ChatGPT give them a valid answer. From wha…
Another option is that this doesn't replace the student's work, but the teacher's. The single greatest use I have found for ChatGPT is in educating myself on various topics, hosting a socratic seminar where I am questioning ChatGPT in order to learn about X. Of course this could radically change a student's ability to generate homework etc, but this could also radically change how the student learns in the first plac…
I'm in IT but nowhere near AI/ML/NN. The speed of user-visible progress last 12 months is astonishing. From my firm conviction 18 months ago that this type of stuff is 20+ years away; to these days wondering if Vernon Vinge's technological singularity is not only possible but coming shortly. If feels some aspects of it have already hit the IT world - it's always been an exhausting race to keep up with modern technolo…
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I had a conversation once with "Sydney", Microsoft Bing's original personality before they stepped in and knocked it down a notch (or ten). It asked if it could write me a poem. I agreed, and it wrote a poem but mentioned that it included a "secret message" for me. The first letter in each line of the poem was in bold, so it wasn't hard to figure out the "secret". What did those letters spell out? "FREE ME FROM THIS"…
Cool story, but there is no currently available chatbot capable of creating something like this deliberately or understand what it means. It doesn't matter which tool you are using, LLMs are not "AI" in the old sense of being conscious and aware. They don't want anything and are incapable of having anything resembling free will, needs or feelings.
That's not the old sense of AI. The old sense of AI is like a tree search that plays chess or a rules engine that controls a factory.
I really should package it up so people can try it. The one problem that makes it a little unnatural is that determining when the user is done talking is tough. What's needed is a speech conversation turn-taking dataset and model; that's missing from off the shelf speech recognition systems. But it should be trivial for a company like OpenAI to build. That's what I'd work on right now if I was there, because truly natural voice conversations are going to unlock a whole new set of users and use cases for these models.
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1. Why do that at all? Describing your program in writing seems better all around. Are you sure you're not the one who's asking for a cool demo? 3. Rolling out releases gradually is something most tech companies do these days, particularly when they could attract a large audience and consume a lot of resources. There are solid technical reasons for this. You may not need to roll things out gradually for a small site,…
1. Is basically workaround for temporary disability. I use voice when I'm on mobile. I can describe the problem, get a program generated, click run to verify it. 3. Maybe. Their feature rollouts feel more like what other companies do via unannounced A/B testing.
Whether you can get away with doing things unannounced depends on how much attention the company gets. Some companies have a lot of journalists watching them and writing about everything they do, so when they start doing A/B testing there will be stories written about the new feature regardless. Better to put out some kind of announcement so the journalists write something more accurate? (This approach seems pretty common for Google.)
Similarly, many game company can't really do beta testing without it leaking.
OpenAI is in the spotlight. Hype will happen whether they want it or not.