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I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by

I built a GPT-4 powered walking tour app during a hackathon. It uses the Wikipedia and Google Maps APIs to find interesting facts about things you're walking by and generates scripts to read aloud. It's fun and I learned a lot about places I go to all the time. Unfortunately all the APIs are pretty costly so I can't post it for the group. Now that OpenAI's TTS and GPT-4 Turbo is out, I could probably revisit it. Still, not sure if people would be willing to pay enough for something like this.

beardyw 3y ago
Older models had little understanding of geography. Do you know if that has been addressed?
latexr 3y ago
You don’t need AI for that. https://apps.apple.com/app/hewell-personal-tour-guide/id1535728896 https://apps.apple.com/app/hewell-personal-tour-guide/id1535...
- literalAardvark 3y ago
  You appear to be missing the point. The point is to play with GPT in an environment where we have good baselines.
  - latexr 3y ago
    No, the point is that this person built something useful and expensive to run to the degree they didn’t publish it. Which for anyone but the author makes it as meaningful (meaningless) as it not existing. Yet without AI you can have the same thing, that everyone can use, at zero recurring cost.
    - literalAardvark 3y ago
      That's your point, not theirs. You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion.
      - latexr 3y ago
        > That's your point, not theirs. That’s how conversations work. Someone makes a point then you reply with another point which responds to the original. > You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion. Or I could reply in context, in the place that makes sense. This has a real, existing, relevant counterpoint example which the original commenter may not have realised was an option.

beardyw 3y ago

Older models had little understanding of geography. Do you know if that has been addressed?

latexr 3y ago

You don’t need AI for that. https://apps.apple.com/app/hewell-personal-tour-guide/id1535728896 https://apps.apple.com/app/hewell-personal-tour-guide/id1535...

literalAardvark 3y ago
You appear to be missing the point. The point is to play with GPT in an environment where we have good baselines.
- latexr 3y ago
  No, the point is that this person built something useful and expensive to run to the degree they didn’t publish it. Which for anyone but the author makes it as meaningful (meaningless) as it not existing. Yet without AI you can have the same thing, that everyone can use, at zero recurring cost.
  - literalAardvark 3y ago
    That's your point, not theirs. You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion.
    - latexr 3y ago
      > That's your point, not theirs. That’s how conversations work. Someone makes a point then you reply with another point which responds to the original. > You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion. Or I could reply in context, in the place that makes sense. This has a real, existing, relevant counterpoint example which the original commenter may not have realised was an option.