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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 ChatGTP »

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 still don't understand how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value?

The other day I asked it about the place I live and it made up nonsense, I was trying to get it to help me with an essay and it was just wrong, it was telling me things about this region that weren't real.

Do we just drive through a town, ask for a made up history about it and just be satisfied with whatever is provided?

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

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Post by eshack94 »

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.

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

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Post by gwd »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #31

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 been using only GPT-4 through the API; you get more control over your experience, and only pay for what you actually use.

But this would definitely make me consider popping $20/mo for the subscription.

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

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Post by jojobas »

DrScientist wrote: post #42
jojobas wrote: post #17

For better or worse, it still can't tell truth from fiction or, better yet, bullshit.

So almost human then :-)

Well sort of, it's as if you commissioned help of a human for this or that, and now and then you end up getting medicine-related advise from a homeopathy fan, navigation assistance from a flat-earther, or coding advice from a crack-smoking monkey.

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

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Post by apexalpha »

palata wrote: post #56
apexalpha wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers understanding and responding in human language is the most exciting software innovation since the invention of the GUI. Just as the GUI made computer software available to billions LLMs will be the next revolution. I'm just as excited as you! The only downside is that it now make me feel bad that I'm not doing anything with it yet.

> The only downside is that it now make me feel bad that I'm not doing anything with it yet. If that's the only downside that you see... I guess enhanced phishing/impersonation and all the blackhat stuff that come with it don't count. I for one already miss the time where companies had support teams made of actual people.

I work as a ethical hacker, so I'm well aware of the phishing and impersonation possibilities. But the net positive is so, so much bigger for society that I'm sure we'll figure it out.

And yes, in 20 years you can tell your kids that 'back in my day' support consisted of real people. But truthfully, as someone who worked on a ISP helpdesk it's much better for society if these people move on to more productive areas.

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

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Post by alpark3 »

> The new voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.

I'm more interested in this. I wonder how it performs compared to other competitor models or even open source ones?

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

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Post by adr1an »

nunobrito wrote: post #36
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…

It already replaced search engines. So much easier to write the question and explore the answers until it is solved.

True. Although the training is on a snapshot of websites, including q&a like stackoverflow. If these were replaced too, where are we heading? We'll have to wait and see. One concern would be centralization/ lack of options and diversity. Stackoverflow started rolling AI on its own, despite the controversial way it did (dismissing long time contributors); it might be correctly following the trend.

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

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Post by adroniser »

dmd wrote: post #49
NikolaNovak wrote: post #31

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 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 keep feeling that consciousness is a bit of a red herring when it comes to AI. People have intuitions that things other than humans cannot develop consciousness which they then extrapolate to thinking AI can't get past a certain intelligence level. In fact my view is that consciousness is just a mysterious side effect of the human brain, and is completely irrelevant to the behaviour of a human. You can be intelligent without needing to be sentient.
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