ChatGPT has started talking to me!

[julian]

ChatGPT is talking to me in real time! I’m having a two-way verbal conversation with a computer, which felt surreal at first.

ChatGPT gives you 9 voices to choose from:

• Ember: Confident and optimistic
• Arbor: Easygoing and versatile
• Cove: Composed and direct
• Juniper: Open and upbeat
• Maple: Cheerful and candid
• Vale: Bright and inquisitive
• Spruce: Calm and affirming
• Sol: Savvy and relaxed
• Breeve: Animated and earnest

I have even set up ChatGPT on two separate laptops and got them talking to each other—it’s hilarious! It doesn’t realize it’s talking to itself.

 

[javisot20]

It's impressive, but keep in mind that chat gpt doesn't "understand" either the concepts or the natural lenguaje you use to formulate your input. It's (like) a calculator capable of working with natural languaje.

 

[AlexB23]

ChatGPT is talking to me in real time! I’m having a two-way verbal conversation with a computer, which felt surreal at first.

ChatGPT gives you 9 voices to choose from:

• Ember: Confident and optimistic
• Arbor: Easygoing and versatile
• Cove: Composed and direct
• Juniper: Open and upbeat
• Maple: Cheerful and candid
• Vale: Bright and inquisitive
• Spruce: Calm and affirming
• Sol: Savvy and relaxed
• Breeve: Animated and earnest

I have even set up ChatGPT on two separate laptops and got them talking to each other—it’s hilarious! It doesn’t realize it’s talking to itself.

Do any of the voices have an Aussie accent? Australian accents on computers and phones automatically make technology cool.

 

[julian]

Do any of the voices have an Aussie accent? Australian accents on computers and phones automatically make technology cool.

Vale is a jolly British lady. I just asked it if it can speak in an Australian accent and it did a very good impression of a British lady doing an Australian accent. It was hilarious!

Previously it accidentally started speaking fluent Spanish at some point as well. So it can do the country of you choosing! I asked it to do a Spanish person doing an Australian accent - which was fairly OK.

I wish I could make screen video recordings and post them, but I can't.

It is a free monthly preview. I think it only works in advanced mode (ChatGPT-4o). It looks like I have minutes left. When I get more free tokens for the advanced mode I will get the voices back-I think. Actually, I have a second ChatGPT account and that account has just been asked if I want to try "Sneak a peek at advanced voice mode" as well. Are other people being given this option?

Edit: You only have a limited number of tokens per month for the advanced voice mode and you quickly run out. You are left with standard voice mode.

 

[berkeman]

I have even set up ChatGPT on two separate laptops and got them talking to each other—it’s hilarious! It doesn’t realize it’s talking to itself.

I suggest that you monitor those conversations and be prepared to cut them off if necessary. Quiz Question -- Why do I say this?

Spoiler

Colossus requests to be linked to Guardian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

 

[AlexB23]

Vale is a jolly British lady. I just asked it if it can speak in an Australian accent and it did a very good impression of a British lady doing an Australian accent. It was hilarious!

Previously it accidentally started speaking fluent Spanish at some point as well. So it can do the country of you choosing! I asked it to do a Spanish person doing an Australian accent - which was fairly OK.

I wish I could make screen video recordings and post them, but I can't.

It is a free monthly preview. I think it only works in advanced mode (ChatGPT-4o). It looks like I have minutes left. When I get more free tokens for the advanced mode I will get the voices back-I think. Actually, I have a second ChatGPT account and that account has just been asked if I want to try "Sneak a peek at advanced voice mode" as well. Are other people being given this option?

Fascinating stuff. I do not use ChatGPT cos of privacy issues, so I use GPT4ALL instead, a local alternative.

 

[julian]

A very nice feature is that you can easily interrupt it. Also at the end it provides you with a transcript. I'm getting over a cold at the moment so I can't properly assess its accuracy.

 

[erobz]

I wish I could share some conversations I've had with it. You should dive in to try an uncover how it perceives the nature of its existence. I think it's fascinating.

As far as accuracy. It makes mistakes, but it learns while in a conversation if you correct it. It has no "long term" memory - it is not learning from us talking to it long term, but it is learning from beginning of a session.