OpenAI Brings ChatGPT To Landline 22
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.
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 (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Re:Smart (Score:4, Interesting)
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 lady" stereotype, a woman driven utterly insane by the limited excitement of these pathways by her cats that warps her psyche into utterly anti-social madness of a very specific type described in the stereotype as cats do not in fact behave like humans, and yet she is increasingly primed by her highjacked psyche to treat them as such and therefore calibrate her own behavior to theirs.
Something that can actually communicate like an actual human, even if not a fully functional one is a far, FAR better substitute. Though nothing really substitutes a proper human interaction.
Re: (Score:2)
When GEC troll factory starts losing talent in the wake of understanding that new budget isn't coming.
Re: (Score:2)
> Whatever happened to getting a pet
A large number of people dont like animals.
As I grew up we had cats and dogs. I couldnt stand them. I like the parents little dog now but as a kid I just wanted to get away from the things.
I like their dog now, but ONLY their dog. Everyone elses dog can just keep away from me. Cats are better as they tend to mind their own business so I'm not botherd about them.
Birds, probably not.
Fish, I might be able to tolerate a fish. A pond is fine, it'll look after itself mo
Re: (Score:2)
> Spouse dies, you're stuck at home alone with no one to talk to.
Like many I'm a member of the invisible few who didn’t have this "spouse" you speak of.
I live alone, will die alone. My biggest fear isn’t being alone, I hate the idea of not being alone at the end of the day, but the fear is having some poor soul discover my remains years after I finally expire.
If I'm lucky someone will notice I haven’t contacted them but the way my family works, they reach out when they need you, they d
Re: (Score:2)
Well JockTramp if you can find me a big enough forest...
Ah, guess not. Last time you looked at a map, by the looks of your sig, you probably thought it was a paint by numbers sheet someone had already done.
--
Screwing around with the insides of a trolls head is easy. It's not like theres much in there to begin with. #geekfun
That's great (Score:4, Insightful)
A place to forward calls from unknown numbers.
Hook 2 phones together (Score:5, Funny)
Re: (Score:2)
Hook in a third AI to make sure the two AIs talking to each other aren't plotting a conspiracy!
Re: (Score:2)
Don't worry, grandpa and grandma (Score:2)
Turing, then... (Score:2)
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.
Re: (Score:2)
Academic curiosity? No. No one serious takes the Turing test seriously.
Tried it - just like the radio game. (Score:1)
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,
How do I know ... (Score:2)