I'm not saying an omni model isn't useful for HCI - essentially my problem is that these demos seem to be highlighting the model's ability to interrupt the user (which is almost always not a good thing), it's ability to keep time (which should be a non-issue really), and it showcases these using fairly lame use-cases.
I hate to say it but while this does seem very impressive and a step forward in how we interact with AI, the use-cases they present and the UX both seem unrealistic and/or unhelpful.
With the exception of the real-time translation (which seems like it should be a separate product all by itself), none of the use-cases they presented had much utility. I don't want anything to count the number animals in my stories or time a trivia quiz for me. The auto-slouch-detector, while the demo was pretty funny, just seems so dystopian and weird. AI interrupting you to scold you about taking elderly parents mountain biking instead of waiting for you to finish to scold you? No thanks.
The UX is also an issue - the model interrupting the user (even when apparently required by these strange use-cases) is jarring and makes one lose their flow. You can even see this in the demo videos that they put out - the employees/actors had to really concentrate to continue speaking as if they weren't being interrupted by a brash robotic machine. A human, when participating in this (rare) "invited interruption" has the ability to speak "under" the main speaker and I feel it's generally timed with a lot of nuance.
Even in the auto-translation demo, they ducked the human's audio but the AI steamrolled him and it would have been impossible to actually do that demo without either an incredible amount of control over one's speaking, or (more likely) muting the output. A human translator has a way of "pointing" the "output" to the intended speaker.
The very best part of this tech was presented in the first video where it shows the AI not needlessly interrupting the user. This seems to me more of an important bug fixed that the current models still (somehow) have.
Maybe a good use-case for this would be counting "um's" and the like while practising public speaking.
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I don't understand, what could be built with this platform that wouldn't be made obsolete by conceivable updates to ChatGPT?
Another commenter suggested a hotel search function:
> Find me hotels in Capetown that have a pool by the beach .Should cost between 200 dollars to 800 dollars a night
ChatGPT can already do this. Similarly, their own pizza lookup example seems like it would exist or nearly exist with current functionality. I can't think of a single non-trivial app that could be built on this platform - and if there are any, I can't think of any that would be useful or not in immediate danger of being swallowed by advances to ChatGPT.
I'm really not advocating for people to push out reams of AI drivel and not learn anything while doing it, but of these three groups which ones are likely to be the most effective?
The ability to easily edit in word processors surely atrophied people's ability to really reason out what they wanted to write before committing it to paper. Is it sad that these traits are less readily available in the human populace? Sure. Do we still use word processors anyway because of the tremendous benefits they have? Of course. Similar could be said for spellcheckers, tractors, calculators, power tools, etc.
With LLMs, it's so much quicker to access a tremendous breadth of information, as well as drill down and get a pretty good depth on a lot of things too. We lose some things by doing it this way, and it can certainly be very misused (usually in a fairly embarrassing way). We need to keep it human, but AI is here to stay and I think the benefits far exceed the "cognitive decline" as mentioned in this journal.
Beautifully said and my sentiments exactly. It's not nice to see even Iranians (assuming the very GPT-esque parent comment is actually from an Iranian) fall for Netanyahu's incredibly hollow and cringe "sympathy" for the Iranian people. zorobo replied to your comment saying that Israel doesn't want to invade Iran, but this is not true in an absolute sense. Israel doesn't work like that (outside of their borders, anyway). They are subversive[0] and want to invade the minds and culture of the Iranian people, just like they have subverted people elsewhere.
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Flutter is such a brilliant tool. Not just the framework, but everything surrounding it. Tooling, the standard of cross compatibility, pub.dev, the Dart language itself, the friendly community… it’s the best developer experience I’ve found and this article makes me really hope that Google pulls through.