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Re: GPT-4o

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A bit sad to see the desktop app is macos only

I don't think it's available in Europe yet? It seems they prioritizes the US market for now. Hence OSX because Mac is way more popular in the US than the rest of the world.

Re: GPT-4o

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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.

Right to who? To me, the voice sounds like an over enthusiastic podcast interviewer. Whats wrong with wanting computers to sound like what people think computers should sound like?

exactly. Hope we can customize the voice soon. I want to talk to ultron... or the one from mass effect

Re: GPT-4o

#924

I found these videos quite hard to watch. There is a level of cringe that I found a bit unpleasant. It’s like some kind of uncanny valley of human interaction that I don’t get on nearly the same level with the text version.

While it is probably pretty normal for California, the insincere flattery and patronizing eagerness are definitely grating But then you have to stack that up against the fact that we are examining a technology and nitpicking over its tone of voice .

Maybe they need to make a North Easterner mode. Cut the bullshit and pleasantries. Give me the information and move on!

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That woman's voice intonation is just scary .Not because it talks really well, but because it is always happy, optimistic, enthusiastic. And this echoes to what several of my employers idealized as a good employee. That's terrifying because those AI become what their master's think an engaging human should be. It's quite close to Bostondynamics di some years ago. what did they show ? You can hit a robot very hard whi…

The AI woman's voice is far too breathy and emotive. I instantly hate it and don't want to hear it. The AI has also copied one of my personal pet peeves, which is dropping or swallowing d's and t's from certain words, like "didn't" to "di-unt" and "important" to "impor-unt"--which I find to be a new unbearable laziness spreading amongst younger Americans today. There are TWO T's in important goddammit (I'll die on th…

I'm sure they'll add a Interstellar/TARS demo soon:

>Chirpiness Level?

>Chirpiness at 80%!

>Set chirpiness to 10%

[in noticeable monotone]

>Chripiness set to 10%.

Re: GPT-4o

#927

With GPT-4o I see two things: 1. Wonderful engineering 2. A stagnation in reasoning ability Do you agree with me?

Is it stagnation in reasoning ability, or is OpenAI pulling their punches?

It’s suspicious that despite being trained on audio tokens in addition to text and image tokens it performs almost exactly the same as GPT-4.

GPT-4o could be a half-baked GPT-5 in that they stopped training early when it had comparable performance to GPT-4. There is still more loss to lose.

Or maybe there’s a performance ceiling that all models are converging to, but I think this is less likely.

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#928
Curiously want to know why didn't they create the Windows desktop app first? which is the dominant desktop segment. In fear of competing with Microsoft's copilot?

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#929
The one thing I first thought is that I felt uncomfortable the way they cut and interrupt the she-AI. I wonder if our children will end up being douchebags?

Other than that it felt like magic, like that Google demo of the phone doing some task like setting up an appointment over phone talking to a real person.

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post #928

Curiously want to know why didn't they create the Windows desktop app first? which is the dominant desktop segment. In fear of competing with Microsoft's copilot?

I guess because they mostly use Macs. They always use Macbooks in videos.
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