[choudharism]

I know there are shades of grey to how they operate, but the near constant stream of stuff they're shipping keeps me excited.

The LLM boom of the last year (Open AI, llama, et al) has me giddy as a software person. It's a reach, but I truly feel like I'm watching the pyramids of our time get made.

[apexalpha]

Computers understanding and responding in human language is the most exciting software innovation since the invention of the GUI.

Just as the GUI made computer software available to billions LLMs will be the next revolution.

I'm just as excited as you! The only downside is that it now make me feel bad that I'm not doing anything with it yet.

[palata]

> The only downside is that it now make me feel bad that I'm not doing anything with it yet.

If that's the only downside that you see... I guess enhanced phishing/impersonation and all the blackhat stuff that come with it don't count.

I for one already miss the time where companies had support teams made of actual people.

[pc_edwin]

Its truly an amazing time to be alive. I'm right there with you, super excited about this decade. Especially what we could do in medicine.

[londons_explore]

Statistical diagnoses models have offered similar possibilities in medicine for 50 years. Pretty much, the idea is that you can get a far more accurate diagnosis if you take into account the medical history of everyone else in your family, town, workplace, residence and put all of it into a big statistical model, on top of your symptoms and history.

However, medical secrecy, processes and laws prevent such things, even if they would save lives.

I don't see ChatGPT being any different.

[HenryBemis]

From a data protection/privacy standpoint, it's not shade of grey, it's all black.

From convenience perspective, it saves me LOADS of time texting myself on Signal on my specs/design-rabbit-hole, then copying & pasting to Firefox, and getting into the discussion. So yeah, happy for this.

[danielvaughn]

Yep. Several months ago I was imagining this exact feature, and yet as I watched a video of it in use, I'm still in awe. It's incredible.

I think this could bring back Google Glass, actually. Imagine wearing them while cooking, and having ChatGPT give you active recipe instructions as well as real-time feedback. I could see that within the next 1-3 years.

[nomel]

Related, the iOS app has supported realtime conversations for months now, using Shortcuts app and the "Hey Siri <shortcut name>" trigger to initiate it. Mine is "Hey Siri, let's talk".

I think they're using Siri for dictation, though. Using Whisper, especially if they use speaker identification, is going to be great. But, a shortcut will still be required to get it going.