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Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

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Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

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Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

arstechnica.com /information-technology/2024/05/chatgpt-4o-lets-you-have-real-time-audio-video-conversations-with-emotional-chatbot/

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- From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me
  
  so I started sexting 568 people all at the same time.
- I actually rewatch this movie with my SO whom never saw it two days ago. Fun coincidence to see a quote from it today
I really hate it. In fact, it's hard to listen to because it's been built to reply in such a sycophant way. Everything is enthusiastic and positive when that's not how real life is. I'm paraphrasing obviously, but it's like "OMG you're wearing a leather jacket and a light colored shirt, you're so cool!" and "You're in an industrial place with lighting, that's so awesome!"
I'd rather they work on code that optimizes the validity of the results and prevents hallucinations rather than work on emotive responses.
- Nah, it's just that corporations will obviously want to be as positive as possible! After all, happy people are more exploitable/profitable people!
  This is literally how the fake happy cyberpunk dystopias happen.
  
  Also the Genuine People Personality™ from the Hitchhiker's Guide.
Go to the 9:25 mark for the demos..
https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw
- That was very smooth even if it is staged.
  
  Doesn't seem staged. The demo was imperfect in very normal ways. One imperfection was when it was referencing an old picture that he had earlier sent to the program.
  I'd be more convinced it was staged if everything were perfect.
  
  It's probably not staged considering how soon they are rolling this out
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/live/DQacCB9tDaw
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I didn't ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don't think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months... and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell.
You think you've got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't try to answer that. I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.
Marvin the Paranoid Android, HHGTTG
Aww, how great, the nerds finally invented themselves a friend.
Do not want
I wonder if they could add this to the killer robots
Imagine a robot that gets humans to come out of hiding so it can wipe them out.
[[ EDIT: Disregard this whole message - I got ahead of myself and none of what I said is based on anything. ]]
The speed aspect is impressive, but I'm really disappointed about the "natural" conversation feature.
Like at first, I was super impressed with the presentation, but on the app, there's one crucial difference: you need to tap to interrupt.
Watching the presentation, I was thinking maybe there was a continuous input feed, and the AI was reacting to that in real time - so for example, if I said "Ahh, I see", the AI would hear that, but continue talking.
However, it seems like the input is still broken up into request/response the same as before, and this is actually just a new front-end (with some improvements in the response).
So overall, this is kinda neat, but sadly it's not at all what they seem to by hyping it up as, as far as natural conversation goes.
- I don't think it's actually been rolled out to the app yet. When I load up the app, I see the old voice feature, not the new mode.
  
  Ahh, that's very possible, fair point.
  I never used the old voice feature, so I guess I assumed based on how it looked and such. If it actually works the way I'm imagining though, that'll be insane. I don't think I'm prepared for that.
  
  Yep, I did the obvious thing and checked when the app last updated, and it was May 3rd. So disregard every word of that post!

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