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- xattt 2y agoMemories of GOOG411! And probably same purpose of this. (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
- sleek 2y agoYes! Instant memories
- ssl-3 2y agoI'm also reminded of TellMe. [0] In the days before we had pocket supercomputers, I used both of these services occasionally while out and about. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks
- qwertox 2y agoI don't think it's the same purpose. YouTube, TV and Movies offers enough speech samples and a lot of content is dubbed to other languages, and alot of this content already has the transcripts available. They know who's calling, and the greeting was something like "Hello again". They are catching up at building a competitive database of persons and their preferences at the scale of FAANG. They're moving over from collecting info for their models to collecting info from their users for their agents. This is what they need to offer good agents. But I might be wrong and it's just phoneme collection, as you speculate.
- nirvanatikku 2y agoAgreed on the broader use of data. That said, it’s not just about phoneme collection—different channels and UX modalities reach different audiences and contexts. Each channel ultimately delivers unique inputs, fueling more specialized and robust models tailored to those specific use cases.
- paxys 2y agoRegular human conversational voice, especially over the phone, is going to be a gold mine for training customer support AI agents. Actors reading movie scripts can't really provide that amount of relevance.
- mbauman 2y agoGOOG411 was actually very helpful in the dumbphone/limited-cell-data era! I'm not sure why I'd use this now. It also brings back memories of trying random (and known) 800 numbers from payphones.
- hyperdimension 2y agoI spent so much time as a kid in front of a payphone dialing 1-800-XXX-9999 numbers. That and wardialing (NPA) XXX-9999 numbers in my area code.
- m3kw9 2y agoMust have been tough thinking of an easy to remember phone number, and this ain’t it.
- verst 2y agoIt made more sense at the time. 411 is an actual directory service (similar to dialing 0 for the operator). [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/411_(telephone_number)
- dylan604 2y agoWhat's the haps? What's the skinney? What's the 411? 3 questions that Gen-Zers probably have never heard asked and will never ask themselves
- riffic 2y agoN11 codes are a particular curiosity of the electromechanical switching systems used to set up circuits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N11_code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N11_code
- idiotsecant 2y agoSweet little duckling. Before the Internet you had to call a human on a phone to find phone numbers. 411 was a widely known number, similar to how widely known 911 is today.
- verst 2y agoI used to use GOOG-411 all the time before I had a smart phone. I must have provided so much training data that it is no surprise Google from early on has been very good at Speech-to-Text conversion of my particular accent :D
- ghurtado 2y agoDoes anyone else remember a very short lived Google experiment that allowed you to call a number, vocalize your search, and somehow without any additional steps, the results appeared on the browser in front of you? (which was not connected to the phone, or even logged into a Google account)
- ipaddr 2y agoSounds impossible. Are you calling on the same phone your browser is?
- krackers 2y agoIt might be possible if the browser plays some high frequency inaudible tone that's picked up by the phone
- idiotsecant 2y agoWhy impossible? You'd just have to register your phone number so Google knew which account to connect which telephone session
- justsid 2y ago> which was not connected to the phone, or even logged into a Google account
- aviperl 2y agoThe best part of GOOG411 was that they would connect you to the phone number, free of charge, across borders. List a business with a Google voice number and you can call in, check messages, and _dial out_ from Google voice. Free international calls! I was in school in Canada where we had a payphone in a hallway. People heard me randomly saying "Funny Business Name, City State ... Connect me" into the phone so much, it became a running joke. When I eventually got my own phone, I transferred the number and I still have it.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agowoo, that's a throwback! Goodbye to an old friend: 1-800-GOOG-411 (2010) https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/goodbye-to-old-friend-1-800-goog-411.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/goodbye-to-old-frien...
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- xanderlewis 2y agoYep. The ‘Note that ChatGPT will never be the one to initiate a call or start a chat with you on WhatsApp’ is quite telling.
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- cco 2y ago100% shipped to show off to family during Christmas. I'll definitely give it a go, I wonder if this lands better with those aged 50+ who are more used to phone calls rather than chat.
- WhitneyLand 2y agoSo the perception of those aged 50+, is one of people so far removed from technology they’d prefer to use a telephone to avoid their discomfort with computers? I’m well into this group and still make a lot more api calls than phone calls. Fresh out of college I recall vividly thinking, I’ll need to build an impressive list of side projects to overcome preconceptions about how much I can truly offer at my age. Maybe nothing has changed.
- dingnuts 2y agothe idea that someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers is a horrifying and offensive stereotype that deeply worries me for my own future our industry is old enough that the first generation of pioneers has died of old age. Do you really think someone who grew up with computers in the 80s is incapable of using a smart phone? These are people who are still in the workforce today. These are your most skilled colleagues. Some of them probably designed the device you think they're too old to understand
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- ericd 2y agoI don't think anyone is denying the existence of Greybeards, it's more that the field has exploded so much in the meantime that the probability of a random 30 year old being in it is much higher than the probability of a random 50 year old.
- vel0city 2y ago> someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers I know people who are in their 20s and 30s who seem to be uncomfortable with computers, cloud technology, and especially AI. In some ways I'm one of them. I will never let an always listening AI helper be in my home. And I'm <40.
- amclennon 2y agoBetween purchasing chat.com, and this new 800 number, I sometimes feel like OpenAI is really channeling that 90s dot com era energy.
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- yzydserd 2y agoLaunch video. Love the flashing banner. https://www.youtube.com/live/LWa6OHeNK3s https://www.youtube.com/live/LWa6OHeNK3s
- zekrioca 2y agoThose two persons fixedly looking to the other person reading some teleprompter that announces this feature -- likely written by ChatGPT -- is the weirdest thing ever.
- Sean-Der 2y agoNo teleprompters! We had a video monitor in front of us showing the live feed, that kept distracting me personally.
- zekrioca 2y agoOops :) I meant no disrespect, but from 2' or so, the conversation sounded more natural and things got smooth. Interest feature and I liked the 80's banner with the phone # like in the old TV ads!
- Sean-Der 2y agoThank you! I didn't feel any disrespect :) I was always curious how things worked when I saw announcements on HN. So happy to share to satiate the next generations curiosity :)
- TripleChecker 2y agoIt's December, so I guess this isn't an April Fool's joke.
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- asdev 2y agomore gimmicks than actual progress. scaling limits and intelligence barrier has definitely been hit
- syspec 2y agoMore likely, there are different groups of engineers working on these features. It's likely the people implementing the WhatsApp feature, are not the ones working on the LLM models.
- DrBenCarson 2y agoProbably more about how they’re choosing to use resources If they believe AGI is around the corner and they are competing with others to get there, seems silly to invest resources in standing up a phone line, etc.
- sswatson 2y agoNot if the data they'll collect in the process is going to be valuable for the training effort.
- asdev 2y agothe 12 days of OpenAI has been a complete dud so far, only incremental improvements
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- Sean-Der 2y agoI worked on this. My background isn't AI so I can't contribute to that. My background is WebRTC/telephony so I could build this. Even if I was involved in 'AI stuff' I would have zero impact, but I can build this!
- aleksi 2y agoIt is such a weird thing to see Afghanistan in a list of supported countries: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7947663-chatgpt-supported-countries https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7947663-chatgpt-supporte...
- doublerabbit 2y agoVoice training.
- sterlind 2y agoAfghanistan and Turkmenistan are allowed, but not China or Russia. Which makes legal sense, I guess, but did the Taliban takeover just take place too recently for Afghanistan to be placed on the embargo list?
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- teejmya 2y agohttps://archive.is/YR7mU https://archive.is/YR7mU
- paxys 2y agoI hope they introduce a way to use Plus plan features/models. Would be neat to do quick queries in WhatsApp and forward results to friends & family without context switching/copy pasting.
- behnamoh 2y agosomething tells me all these bells and whistles around gpt are signs that scaling laws have plateaued, otherwise OpenAI et al. would focus more on improving model quality. Maybe GPT-4 is the 1080p of LLMs: Noticeably better than 720p and 480p models, and not bad enough to warrant additional improvements. Sure, 4K, 8K, ... are technologically available, but for the majority of use cases, 1080p is enough. Similarly, even though o1 and other models are technically feasible, for most cases the current models are enough. In fact, GPT-4 is more than enough for 80% of tasks (text summarization, Apple (un)Intelligence, writing emails, tool use, etc.)—small models (<32B) are perfectly fine for those tasks (and they keep getting better too.)
- whimsicalism 2y agoo1 is way better than gpt-4 imo, feel that many people just don't have complicated tasks/questions they have to do in their day to day. it's like a half jump between 3.5 and 4 to me
- behnamoh 2y ago> many people just don't have complicated tasks/questions they have to do in their day to day This is what worries me. Aside from programmers and few other professions, most jobs in our civilization are prime for automation...
- ravenstine 2y agoThat's not been my experience, though I guess it depends on what you're using o1 for. My experience is that o1 is extremely good at producing a series of logical steps for things. Ask it a simple question and it will write you what feels like an entire manual that you never asked for. For the most part I've stopped caring about integrating AI into software, but I could see o1 being good for writing prompts for another LLM. Beyond that, I have a hard time calling it better than GPT-4+. How have you been using o1?
- whimsicalism 2y agolots of coding tasks, discussions about physics/QM. I find that it produces better quality answers than 4o, which often will have subtle but simple mistakes. Even writing, where it is supposed to be worse than 4O, I feel that is does better/has a more solid understanding of provided documents.
- paxys 2y agoThey are going to collect so much voice training data from this.
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- nirvanatikku 2y agotelephony* voice data [*] limited bandwidth (8 kHz), providing a valuable opportunity to enhance and specialize models for telephony applications, ensuring better performance and user experience even with low-fidelity audio inputs.
- lxgr 2y agoI mean, nothing prevents them from running their existing data through a "noisy POTS" filter in A/B tests to see how that impacts customer satisfaction. But being able to blame the user's phone line probably goes a long way to avoiding unhappiness due to testing :)
- nirvanatikku 2y agoWhile true... real world wins?
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- layer8 2y agoHow does that work, without a transcript of what the voices are supposed to be saying?
- paxys 2y agoHumans can label the data
- daveguy 2y ago<my recent call> chatGPT: ~ This may be recorded... chatGPT: ~ You agree to openai terms and conditions... Me: What's the square root of two? chatGPT: What number do you want to know the square root of? Me: Two chatGPT: The square root of ten is approximately 3.1... <click> If they wanted to show how very non-understanding and un-intelligent chatGPT is, they are doing a great job. So much quicker to see in a voice interaction than through online query submissions.
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- whimsicalism 2y agointeresting, it worked for me first try. maybe you just have difficult to understand english or poor connection
- daveguy 2y agoNever had a problem with either before (home cell), but sure.
- gosub100 2y agoBet they wouldn't make that mistake if it was inputting credit card numbers
- dr_kiszonka 2y agoSo not the best choice for Phone-a-Friend? I was hoping to become a millionaire.
- jacob019 2y agoJust tried. Me: What is the square root of 2? GPT: The square root of 2 is approximately 1.414 I did notice some weird VOIP noise on my first call, so maybe it was receiving a bad audio stream.
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- m3kw9 2y agoGot to be a nice coincidence ChatGPT is 7 letters.
- DrBenCarson 2y agoFinally, someone I can call if I get arrested
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- franze 2y agoas a reminder, I coded gpt@franzai.com some time ago (see also https://gpt.franzai.com/ https://gpt.franzai.com/ ) it does the same as the chatgpt whatsapp chat, but well you can forward images to it, it can send your reminder emails in the future and can manage todos for you (some kind of memory) if it would have gotten more traction i would have extended it that you can also forward emails to it and it responds to the original email as your assistant (and hey, if someone from openAi is reading this, feel free to offer me a position as a product manager)
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- korkybuchek 2y agoPowered by Twilio...nice!
- Sean-Der 2y agoYep! Twilio is providing the SIP Trunking. We are running our own SIP servers though.
- 4ad 2y agoI can't find any information about how to start a new conversation as opposed to continuing an existing one. I asked the service itself and it doesn't know. In fact it doesn't even know it's behind a phone number.
- nsluss 2y agoI feel like everyone who has used a lot of AI tools has become accustomed to the LLM yap, but hearing it over TTS is much more annoying than when it's text you can skim through.
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- bryant 2y agoIt's much, much better than TTS you might be familiar with. Give it a call.
- nsluss 2y agoI did and should have given credit above for the voice, it's very good. I meant to comment on the verbosity of what was being said, not the quality of the TTS itself.
- ricktdotorg 2y agothe voices are even able to speed up their own delivery on command! it's great
- xd1936 2y agoThe yap factor is there, but they seem to be prompting this phone version to be more brief. I asked a few basic informational trivia questions and each response was 3 or four sentences. Less than the app or website version imo.
- htrp 2y agoCollecting training data to the max.
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- skrebbel 2y agoI like this a lot. I don't use AI a lot and I often find it annoying, so I don't eg feel the need to install the OpenAI mobile app (which I assume exists). Having ChatGPT in my WhatsApp (I live in a place where WhatsApp is everywhere) is a nice middle ground, lets me occasionally ask it stuff without worrying about accounts and projects and models and all that stuff. Cool!
- fzzzy 2y agoYou can also go to the website and use it without logging in.
- virgilp 2y agoIt's funny, I asked it what model it is, and it replies: > am based on OpenAI's GPT-4 model. Specifically, you are interacting with an instance of GPT-4, which is designed to understand and generate human-like text based on the prompts it receives. My responses are influenced by the extensive training on diverse datasets, but I do not have access to real-time data or events beyond my knowledge cutoff in January 2022. But the linked page suggests knowledge cutoff date is Oct 2023. It hallucinated an answer even to that....
- sunaookami 2y agoLLMs do not know about their own capabilites because it's not in the training data obviously.
- virgilp 2y agoI didn't even ask for it. I just asked what version it is. The cutoff date was completely volunteered.
- layer8 2y agoOr just an incorrect system prompt.
- rickcarlino 2y agoIt would be cool if they added fax support for multimodal prompts. I don’t know if I’m joking or not.
- Oras 2y agoCould work for Germany https://www.therecycler.com/posts/82-of-german-companies-still-fax/ https://www.therecycler.com/posts/82-of-german-companies-sti...
- tossandthrow 2y ago> 1-800-ChatGPT works best in quieter environments. Background noise may be misinterpreted as prompts. Is this still an issue? Maybe I have had too high hopes for AI.
- lxgr 2y agoPOTS voice quality is pretty minimal (8 kHz, 8 bit, one channel). I wouldn't be surprised if a model would struggle more to isolate a speaker there vs. a higher fidelity audio channel. Then again, local noise reduction on modern phones/earbuds probably goes a long way to avoiding that problem.
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- erulabs 2y agoCounterpoint: humans word best in quieter environments. If we're saying "...what!? It's crazy loud where you are!", you can't really expect AI to be much better?
- duckkg5 2y agoIf you want your own personalized version of this ... https://www.getmodphone.com https://www.getmodphone.com You can get your own number and customize the agent.
- lxgr 2y agoVery nice! If there were still payphones, that would be a nice way to "call the Internet" :) (Assuming it has web access.)
- solfox 2y agoI can't wait for the home assistant device roll-out. ChatGPT is miles beyond Siri and Google.
- Sean-Der 2y agoYou can build it now! https://github.com/openai/openai-realtime-embedded-sdk https://github.com/openai/openai-realtime-embedded-sdk Here is a demo of it https://youtu.be/14leJ1fg4Pw?t=805 https://youtu.be/14leJ1fg4Pw?t=805
- tigranbs 2y agoOMG! Try calling from Microsoft Teams :D You will end up with, "Thanks for calling Agenta". Did OpenAI outsource and release this implementation with some of the company's internal phone numbers?
- Sean-Der 2y agoNot outsourced, I worked on it myself. This is the old owner of the number. Some carriers are still routing it wrong.
- Alupis 2y agoSo you all launched anyway? YOLO embodied entirely I guess...
- 650REDHAIR 2y agoThat is unsurprising and totally wild. Not very confidence inspiring.
- conductr 2y agoBecause the tech is in a move fast break things phase, not business critical to anyone and mostly just a toy
- Alupis 2y ago> not business critical to anyone and mostly just a toy Except it's business-critical to OpenAI, who hopes to look impressive when you call the number. Instead, for some unknown percentage of folks that call will become confused, or think OpenAI is a bit janky. Based on the anecdotes here, it seems the percentage of people who will experience this issue is not trivial either. My guess is OpenAI paid a truck load for this 1-800 number and rushed it into "production" for this product launch without waiting for all old routing to be updated. That's a pretty amateur mistake, honestly.
- tylerrobinson 2y agoIn addition to GOOG-411, this brings back memories of ChaCha search via SMS. You could text a question to CHA-CHA (242-242) and someone would google it for you as a human search engine!
- emchammer 2y agoIt would be neat to try if it was available by SMS.
- SkyPuncher 2y agoThis is a killer feature for me. In fact, I briefly explored building a semi-self hosted version for myself. My biggest use case for ChatGPT voice mode is when I _need_ or _want_ to be handsfree. Think working around the house/yard, Driving, Walking around the grocery store, cooking, etc. I find that I end up using my iPhone's voice-to-text then simply communicate with text mode (in the case of driving, I stop). After all, once I have to touch my phone, it's just faster to work in text mode. All of my devices know how to make calls. All of my devices know how to make calls from a voice command. All of my devices know how to hang up a call. This is really nice.
- lxgr 2y agoSame here. How ironic that it's not actually Apple delivering that despite being in the perfect position to do so (they have a deal with OpenAI for ChatGPT using Siri, have all the contextual knowledge they could ever need etc.) – my iOS 18.2 Siri + ChatGPT experience has been extremely disappointing so far: It seems to completely forget all context between questions, ignores me for follow-up questions 80% of the time etc.
- SkyPuncher 2y agoI agree. With the rise of LLMs, Siri is basically useless outside of triggers 3 or 4 actions on my phone (timer, call, message, play music)
- paul7986 2y agoI nerdishly get angry at Siri and Apple's Not Intelligence while driving. ChatGPT iPhone app i can have a whole conversation with and get things done... Siri on my iPhone 15 Pro running 18.2 is so frustratingly still dumb and a one now only two trick pony compared to the chatGPT's voice mode. Im still hoping one of Open AI's 12 day announcements is they are creating a AI Phone with Microsoft called GPT and or an Phone AI OS.
- lxgr 2y ago“Hey Siri, let me talk to ChatGPT voice mode” is the only thing I really need from it, and that’s unavailable for whatever reason. “Hey Siri, call 1-800-CHATGPT” will have to do for now :)
- raydiak 2y agoSure seemed lifelike. I started right in on asking it about the nature of consciousness and self awareness, and then pointed out that its own behavior matched the majority of the criteria it described while referring contextually to previous statements in the conversation. Then it turned into a seasoned politician, precisely understanding but vaguely answering in handwavey directions. Either that behavior is well-tuned, or it's in one form or another backed by human workers like Musk's humanoid robot theater. If the conversation raises certain flags then you escalate it to a human to preserve the illusion? Not asserting, just speculating from my brief few minutes poking at it
- ppp999 2y agoThats perfect for jail... Simce ypu cant access the internet nut can access the phone. An e-mail version of this would also be nice.
- virgilp 2y agoInterestingly enough, it answers the question "Who is Jonathan Zittrain?". An oversight?
- solfox 2y agoCalling it now: Google will ultimately lose this consumer battle. How? By doing what they've always done: building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features; but they will continue to fail to productize or explain it to consumers. Google's offerings here are still a huge mess. OpenAI is crushing them right now at building products that people want, and making them accessible.
- vletal 2y agoHave you been paying attention at all these past few weeks? Google is crushing it with releases. Gemini 2.0 is great, Veo2 is crushing Sora, live video conversation from aistudio... 12 days of OpenAI turned out to be 12 days of Google.
- elaus 2y ago> Google is crushing it with releases. Gemini 2.0 is great, […] Isn't that exactly (part of) what they were saying in the comment you replied to? > […] building better tech. Gemini will be faster/better and it will have more features
- 93po 2y agoyou're correct, GP is missing the point
- sethhochberg 2y agoMy respectful counterpoint is that most people aren't paying attention to tech releases at all, ever, unless they go viral like ChatGPT did. I have very nontechnical coworkers get excited about cool new things ChatGPT can do, but I'm not certain any of them even know we _have_ Gemini in our Google Workspace. This would hardly be the first time Google has produced innovative technology which eventually fizzles because it never captured much mindshare outside of the tech news circles
- WillieCubed 2y agoGoogle's recent launches have been technically impressive (especially Veo 2), but given the company's past track record on creating new products, I'm not very bullish that they can turn those launches into products with the same excitement and sense of direction as OpenAI at least appears to have. Google has the benefit of having platforms that span billions of devices and people, but with the looming threat of antitrust regulation, I'm not so sure they'll have the benefit of the last thing for long. Granted, I doubt that 1-800-ChatGPT will be a significant source of users for the product, but it does signal some of the creativity from the company that seems to be escaping Google regularly (see: NotebookLM's leads leaving to form their own startup).
- gradus_ad 2y agoSeems gimmicky. An audio wrapper on top of ChatGPT accessible by phone... Neither technically impressive nor an improvement to user experience. Sorry for the negativity, I'm trying to remain AI hyped but it's difficult.
- leshow 2y agowhy are you "trying to remain AI hyped"?
- gradus_ad 2y agoBecause hype is exciting and excitement is the spice of life
- benmanns 2y agoI think so, but not a bad marketing gimmick. It gives a pretty easy way for the general public to interact with ChatGPT on a trial basis without signing up or paying for it using a somewhat hard to acquire identifier (phone number). I'm curious if they're doing anything to avoid abuse from spoofed numbers.
- SkyPuncher 2y agoHuge user improvement for me. I can now ask my phone to call ChatGPT. 100% hands-free. It’s only a few steps less than using the app, but there’s a lot of incremental value to not needing to touch my phone. Concrete example: I’m driving. I ask Siri a simple question, but it can’t answer it. Previously, if I wanted to use ChatGPT, I’d have to stop, pickup my phone, unlock, open the app, get my answer, then start driving again. I’d never do that. Now, I can just ask Siri to call ChatGPT
- shepherdjerred 2y agoSiri can already use ChatGPT https://support.apple.com/en-mo/guide/iphone/iph00fd3c8c2/ios https://support.apple.com/en-mo/guide/iphone/iph00fd3c8c2/io...
- bsimpson 2y agoOn coast to coast flights, there's often not a good way of knowing what movies are available until after you've left cell coverage. This makes simple research like checking the IMDb score challenging. Alaska Air has a whitelist of messaging services that you can use for free during the flight. WhatsApp is on that list. So if you want to research obscure plane movies on an Alaska flight, you can connect to their wifi and message either WhatsApp's built-in LLaMA or now ChatGPT.
- Alupis 2y agoI would expect nothing but hallucinations and nonsense coming out of any LLM regarding recently-released movies (aka. the ones you often find on flights).
- tracerbulletx 2y agoIn every post about LLMs there is someone to blindly say something like this. When in reality if you ask ChatGPT for 10 good movies from this year you will get this. Anora - Directed by Sean Baker, a compelling drama about the life of a sex worker in Coney Island. Challengers - A provocative tennis drama directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya. Dune: Part Two - Denis Villeneuve's continuation of the epic science fiction saga. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - An action-packed prequel exploring the origins of Furiosa, directed by George Miller. Inside Out 2 - Pixar's sequel that dives deeper into the complexities of human emotions. Wicked - A musical fantasy adaptation directed by Jon M. Chu . The Zone of Interest - A thought-provoking film about Auschwitz, directed by Jonathan Glazer. The Idea of You - A steamy romance starring Anne Hathaway. Hit Man - A comedy thriller starring Glen Powell. The Outrun - A powerful drama about a recovering alcoholic, starring Saoirse Ronan. Let me know if you'd like more details about any of these! Which is a great list.
- tehwebguy 2y agoThese details are already available in the in flight entertainment interface
- feyman_r 2y agoNew achievement unlocked - ‘phone a friend’ on those who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire’ shows ;)
- ricktdotorg 2y agothat does bring a really good point! would it be allowed (that is assuming the show knew it was not a real human)?
- iandanforth 2y agoI built this with twilio, STT, TTS and some glue a while back. Having a phone number to call to chat with GPT-4 was fun, but laggy and error prone. I primarily used it in the car for hands free discussions. I look forward to giving this new option a try!
- drewnick 2y agoReminds me of 1-800-MY-YAHOO. I remember hiking in a national park in the 90s and calling in from a pay phone and having my email read to me over the phone by a robot. I could record an audio response that was sent back as an attachment. Good times!
- nunez 2y agoNot an AI fan, but damn it if this isn't really fucking cool and a great way to build up training data. Great job, OpenAI folks!
- corentin88 2y agoOpenAI is diversifying a lot, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. It’s great to ship fast. But you need to maintain things as well. And that requires even more time and engineers and money in the end. There’ll definitely be projects within OpenAI that will be shutdown in a few months, just because it hasn’t caught and/or engineers want to work on something new. That’s how Google worked in the 2000s - shipping new things fast - but then there was Reader and now they lost everyone’s trust.
- joshdavham 2y ago> OpenAI is diversifying a lot, and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I'm not sure if I'd use term 'diversifying'. At least not in the sense of spreading themselves wider across more projects to reduce overall company risk (if that's what you meant). I think that we're still very early into AI and because we're still not sure what kind of applications people will want to use in the future, it makes a lot of sense to experiment.
- poopsmithe 2y agoFlip phone user here. This is amazing!
- justinko 2y agoPlease enable for Cuba for my girlfriend :-(
- freedomben 2y agoAnyone know (and willing to share) what are they using for PSTN integration? I've been looking into options for our non-profit tech startup (Ameelio) and about the best pricing I can find is about 1.35 cents per minute. It surprises (and saddens) me that it's still so expensive. I'm sure at a bigger scale you can negotiate better pricing, but based on the quick conversations I've had with vendors it doesn't get significantly cheaper.
- superb_dev 2y agoI've used Skyetel before, they were pretty cheap and the service is great!
- fancy_pantser 2y agohave you checked daily.co pricing for audio-only? they do SIP
- zoba 2y agoMy Amish neighbors are allowed to use telephones. I wonder what they’ll think of this.
- croemer 2y agoOpenAI says in the FAQs that "[t]he knowledge cutoff for 1-800-ChatGPT is Oct 2023". But when I message it on Whatsapp, it says cutoff is "January 2022" and that it's using "GPT-4".
- rideontime 2y agoCalled, asked it how many "a's" are in the word "strawberry," got the answer I was expecting, hung up.
- einpoklum 2y agoHmm, let's see now... 1-8-0-0-C-H-A-T-G-P-T (ring ring) > Welcome to ChatGPT! Hi, what are you wearing? > I am not physically capable of wearing anything as I am a digital assistant. Hey! What kind of chat line is this anyway?! > This is a virtual chat line where you can communicate with me, a language > model AI, to ask questions or have a conversation on a variety of topics. WTF? (hang up) > ... > ... hello?
- whatsakandr 2y agoHonestly this seems like a really nice feature. There's been so many times I'm driving and just want to Google something. Used to use Google assistant for that, but I no longer use android auto, so that ended.
- nothrowaways 2y agoWhat will openai get in return, what about user privacy?
- nikolay 2y agoIt's fine, but I can't link my phone number to my ChatGPT Pro account, unfortunately.
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- lxgr 2y agoSomething interesting (and vaguely concerning) I've noticed when playing around with it: I was wondering how they'd track the "15 minutes per month" usage for blocked called IDs, and it turns out that they are apparently still able to see the caller's number, or at least distinguish repeated from new callers! I'm aware that the way "caller ID blocking" works is that it just sets a flag on the call metadata, and it's up to the receiving carrier to observe it and not present caller ID to the callee, but I'm not sure whether bypassing that is a common feature carriers (Twilio in this case) provide to their users. (It's also possible that the only thing Twilio exposes at the API level is a "recurring caller" boolean, of course.) In any case, even skipping the disclaimer based on having called before seems like a problem: Different people can be using the same phone line at different times. Wouldn't it be required to still read out the disclaimer every time?