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I’m on a long, meandering road trip and I decided to start using the conversational feature in ChatGPT. Truly amazing stuff. Discussed some sights I’d want to s

I’m on a long, meandering road trip and I decided to start using the conversational feature in ChatGPT. Truly amazing stuff. Discussed some sights I’d want to see along the Natchez Trace (although perhaps unsurprisingly it did not anticipate that this time of year was not ideal for hearing and seeing waterfalls), told me about Meriwether Lewis’s bizarre death. Basically like holding a conversation with Wikipedia, which was perfect. The only real problem was that in the middle of nowhere, I didn’t have a reliable enough data connection to keep the conversation going, but that’s hardly OpenAI’s fault.

dkasper 1y ago
Starlink roam solves that!
- deleted 1y ago
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koakuma-chan 1y ago
What is "the conversational feature'?
- macintux 1y ago
  Apparently it’s called “Advanced Voice Mode”. https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-talk-to-chatgpt-on-your-phone-193633643.html https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-talk-to-chatgpt-on-your-p...
- pests 1y ago
  Voice input and output, no typing you just talk and listen to the response.
teitoklien 1y ago
Same here, Youtube and Social Media algorithms driven by outrage to boost statistics, has made it unbearable for me to watch news or read it online, everything is framed and created with maximum outrage in mind. I added a DNS level blocker on all news app and restricted youtube itself to stop myself from watching news no matter what, and I only use chatgpt advanced voice mode now and sometimes perplexity pro to get my news for the day, and ask questions, around news, I stopped reading everything news related outside of purely business and tech related articles curated and sent to me via either my rss feeds, or via newsletter, nothing else. It feels amazing to get briefed on the days news by ChatGPT, i intuitively ask it stuff around what my interests are and nothing else.
- ambicapter 1y ago
  As someone who uses ChatGPT around topics I'm relatively experienced about, it seems absolutely insane to me to put your entire worldview in its hands.
  - 999900000999 1y ago
    Chat GPT likes to make up things. It told me the other day that on a multiple hard drive/SSD system I could set secure boot on each drive independently. Of course this is nonsense, since secure boot is set in the BIOS. Whatever, Chat GPT got it's engagement metrics. I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. It's still at the level of an energetic junior engineer, sure it wants to crank out a lot of code to look good, but you need to verify everything it does. I was game jamming with a friend last weekend and I realized he can manually write better code, lighter code, more effective code than I was having co-pilot write. Which sounds safer, an elegant 50 line function, or 300 lines of a spaghetti code that appears to work right. The manager( and above)level is all about AI though, let's cut staff and have AI fill in the gaps!
    - Yizahi 1y ago
      > I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. I strongly suspect this has already happened, possibly even multiple times. Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. Now that I think about it, doesn't Line city fits it perfectly? :) What will happen in the next few years is probably not just a cash loss, but some large industrial accident with dead people, due to relying on the LLM bullshit. Now that would make headlines (at least until next Truth Social post).
      - 999900000999 1y ago
        >Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. No need to degrade people, if anything the highest class with hop on the AI train. Why trust an expensive human when an LLM will give you unlimited "advice" ? LLMs can serve as a fall guy, but what's the old IBM quote. Something like a computer will never be responsible for an executive decision. Then again LLMS making stupid mistakes is the only thing keeping most of us employed

dkasper 1y ago

Starlink roam solves that!

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koakuma-chan 1y ago

What is "the conversational feature'?

macintux 1y ago
Apparently it’s called “Advanced Voice Mode”. https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-talk-to-chatgpt-on-your-phone-193633643.html https://www.engadget.com/ai/how-to-talk-to-chatgpt-on-your-p...
pests 1y ago
Voice input and output, no typing you just talk and listen to the response.

teitoklien 1y ago

Same here, Youtube and Social Media algorithms driven by outrage to boost statistics, has made it unbearable for me to watch news or read it online, everything is framed and created with maximum outrage in mind. I added a DNS level blocker on all news app and restricted youtube itself to stop myself from watching news no matter what, and I only use chatgpt advanced voice mode now and sometimes perplexity pro to get my news for the day, and ask questions, around news, I stopped reading everything news related outside of purely business and tech related articles curated and sent to me via either my rss feeds, or via newsletter, nothing else. It feels amazing to get briefed on the days news by ChatGPT, i intuitively ask it stuff around what my interests are and nothing else.

ambicapter 1y ago
As someone who uses ChatGPT around topics I'm relatively experienced about, it seems absolutely insane to me to put your entire worldview in its hands.
- 999900000999 1y ago
  Chat GPT likes to make up things. It told me the other day that on a multiple hard drive/SSD system I could set secure boot on each drive independently. Of course this is nonsense, since secure boot is set in the BIOS. Whatever, Chat GPT got it's engagement metrics. I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. It's still at the level of an energetic junior engineer, sure it wants to crank out a lot of code to look good, but you need to verify everything it does. I was game jamming with a friend last weekend and I realized he can manually write better code, lighter code, more effective code than I was having co-pilot write. Which sounds safer, an elegant 50 line function, or 300 lines of a spaghetti code that appears to work right. The manager( and above)level is all about AI though, let's cut staff and have AI fill in the gaps!
  - Yizahi 1y ago
    > I'm going to predict within the next few years someone's going to lose a billion dollars relying on Chat GPT or another LLM. I strongly suspect this has already happened, possibly even multiple times. Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. Now that I think about it, doesn't Line city fits it perfectly? :) What will happen in the next few years is probably not just a cash loss, but some large industrial accident with dead people, due to relying on the LLM bullshit. Now that would make headlines (at least until next Truth Social post).
    - 999900000999 1y ago
      >Some inbred oil sheikh fatfingering some insane sum of money because "the computer told me, and computers are always correct" is completely believable scenario. No need to degrade people, if anything the highest class with hop on the AI train. Why trust an expensive human when an LLM will give you unlimited "advice" ? LLMs can serve as a fall guy, but what's the old IBM quote. Something like a computer will never be responsible for an executive decision. Then again LLMS making stupid mistakes is the only thing keeping most of us employed