OpenAI Brings ChatGPT To Landline

An anonymous reader shares a report: ChatGPT is coming to phones. No, not smartphones -- landlines. Call 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-CHATGPT), and OpenAI's AI-powered assistant will respond as of Wednesday afternoon.

The experience is more or less identical to Advanced Voice Mode, OpenAI's real-time conversational feature for ChatGPT -- minus the multimodality. ChatGPT responds to the questions users ask over the phone, and can handle tasks such as translating a sentence into a different language. OpenAI is offering 15 minutes of free calling for U.S. users. Beginning Wednesday, ChatGPT is also available on WhatsApp for those who prefer to text the AI assistant.

Smart

[Luckyo]

This has a potential of being a good aid for elderly who need to talk to someone like that.

Also may work well as a cheap solution to the "I'm lonely and I need someone to talk to" situations, which are rapidly increasing in number. Spouse dies, you're stuck at home alone with no one to talk to.

As long as this isn't very expensive, and its marketed correctly, I can see this having a massive market among the ageing populations.

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[alvinrod]

Whatever happened to getting a pet? A chatbot (even a sophisticated one) seems like a very shallow substitute and a hollow experience. I suppose if the person using it thinks it's human or alive then maybe it works for them, but depending on the person making that judgement they may be just as satisfied talking with Eliza.

I don't think this could replace the physical comfort that a pet brings either. Even if you can't really converse with a cat the same way that you could another person, there's somethin

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[Luckyo]

You got it upside down. Most of our day to day interactions are about calibrating our very sanity to the environment, which is why it's important that environment consists of a reasonable amount of people behaving in normative ways.

An animal pet as a primary "sanity check" is a very shallow experience that warps the human mind is very much unintended ways. Essentially it's about an animal hijacking a part of neural pathways aimed at maintaining kin relations. This is easily visible in things like the "cat l

That's great

[Megahard]

A place to forward calls from unknown numbers.

Hook 2 phones together

[xack]

And let the ai infinite loop itself.

Don't worry, grandpa and grandma

[Rujiel]

Even old people who don't use smartphones get to have their thoughts and personalities skimmed to make a better Borg.

Turing, then...

[gillbates]

So this is an actual Turing test, then.

Never thought I'd see the day when the Turing test was anything more than an academic curiosity, and yet here we are.

Tried it - just like the radio game.

[gillbates]

In the 70's, to assuage boredom on long trips, my family would play the radio game. We'd tune the car radio to an AM talk radio station, turn down the volume, and ask the radio a question, such as, "What does the President do before bedtime?" Then we'd turn the radio up, and might hear, for example, "... changing his diapers" or something similarly unrelated, but absolutely hilarious (to a 5 year old).

I called ChatGPT. I asked it, "how bad is forgetting a girlfriend's birthday?" To which it replied,