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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 make3 »

RivieraKid wrote: post #466

I went from being worried to thinking it won't replace me anytime soon after using GPT4 for a while and now I'm back to being worried. Because the pace of development is intense. I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement and perhaps take on risky and fun projects. Now I'm thinking - how do I double or triple my income so that I reach financial independence in 3 years instead of 10 year…

The real problem is distribution of the output of production. We will need something like UBI eventually.

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

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Post by Hoasi »

Closi wrote: post #150
joshstrange wrote: post #135

My biggest complaint with OpenAI/ChatGPT is their horrible "marketing" (for lack of a better term). They announce stuff like this (or like plugins), I get excited, I go to use it, it hasn't rolled out to me yet (which is frustrating as a paying customer), and my only recourse is.... check back daily? They never send an email "Plugins are available for you!", "Voice chat is now enabled on your account!" and so often I…

They have gone from being a niche research company to being (probably) the fastest growing start-up in history. I suspect they do care about communicating with customers, but it's total chaos and carnage internally.

They could send over ChatGPTed newsletters. Marketing bullshit is one thing ChatGPT excels at.

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

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Post by callwhendone »

I already use ChatGPT with voice. I use my mic to talk to it and then I use text-to-speech to read it back. I have conversations with ChatGPT. Adding this functionality in with first-class support is exciting.

I am also terrified of my job prospects in the near future.

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

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Post by callwhendone »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #516
RivieraKid wrote: post #466

I went from being worried to thinking it won't replace me anytime soon after using GPT4 for a while and now I'm back to being worried. Because the pace of development is intense. I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement and perhaps take on risky and fun projects. Now I'm thinking - how do I double or triple my income so that I reach financial independence in 3 years instead of 10 year…

I don’t think any of this materially changes job outlook for software development over the next decade. I use ChatGPT daily for school, and used Copilot daily for software development; it gets a lot wrong a lot of the time, and can’t retain necessary context that is critical for being useful long term. I can’t even get it to consume an entire chapter at once to generate notes or flashcards yet. It may slightly change…

> I can't copy paste an entire book chapter and have flashcards in 30 seconds.

If that's your bar for whether or not it changes the job outlook for software development over the next DECADE, I think you need to recalibrate.

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

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Post by jgalt212 »

catchnear4321 wrote: post #59
jgalt212 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you have never heard of podcasts.

you can ask podcasts questions? and they answer you?

no, but they don't get the answer wrong 20% of the time and give off 100% correctness vibes.

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

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Post by eshack94 »

PopePompus wrote: post #201
eshack94 wrote: post #62

I like how they silently removed the web browsing (Bing browsing) chat feature after first having it disabled for several months. A proper notice about them removing the feature would've been nice. Maybe I missed it (someone please correct me if wrong), but the last I heard officially it was temporarily disabled while they fix something. Next thing I know, it's completely gone from the platform without another peep.

Yes, that was a disappointment, and I agree it looks like they aren't going to re-enable it anytime soon. However I find that Perplexity AI does a better job of using web search than ChatGPT ever did, and I use it more than ChatGPT for that reason.

Perplexity has gone downhill a lot since its initial rollout. Anecdotally, from my experience as a non-paying user of the service.

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

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Post by dragonwriter »

foobazgt wrote: post #465
ftxbro wrote: post #457

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> LLMs are not "AI" in the old sense of being conscious and aware. 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.

Historically "AI" meant what "AGI" now means today. That's what they're referring to.

No, it didn't.

AI historically has been the entire field of making machines think, or behave as if they think, more like biological models (not even exclusively humans.)

The far-off-end-goal wasn’t even usually what we now call AGI, but “strong AI” (mirroring the human brain on a process level) or “human-level intelligence” (mirroring it on a capability/external behavior level), while the current distant horizons are “AGI” (which is basically human-scope but neutral on level) and “superintelligence” (AGI and beyond human level).

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

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Post by LambdaComplex »

make3 wrote: post #521
RivieraKid wrote: post #466

I went from being worried to thinking it won't replace me anytime soon after using GPT4 for a while and now I'm back to being worried. Because the pace of development is intense. I would love to be financially independent and watch this with excitement and perhaps take on risky and fun projects. Now I'm thinking - how do I double or triple my income so that I reach financial independence in 3 years instead of 10 year…

The real problem is distribution of the output of production. We will need something like UBI eventually.

UBI is a bandaid on top of capitalism. It is saying "we have a system where people die if they don't have money, so we'll give people money." It's not a real fix. A real fix would be replacing the system with one where people don't need money in order to not die.

We're going to keep automating more and more things. I think that much is inevitable. Eventually, we may get to a point where very few jobs are necessary for society to function. This should be a good thing, because it would mean fewer people would have to work and could therefore pursue things that actually interest them, but it would be a catastrophe under the current system.

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

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Post by sumtechguy »

root_axis wrote: post #367
dmd wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 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. The human brain obviously doesn't work that way. Consider the very common case of tiny humans that are clearly intelligent but lack the facilities of language.

The story that sticks with me is the lady who had some surgery done. After she woke up was unconvinced anything had happened told a joke and then passed out. Only to wake up a few mins later and repeat that cycle a few times because the drug was messing with her short term memory. It really bends your brain do we have free will or not.
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