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OpenAI Announces ChatGPT App for Mac, GPT-4 for Free, and More

Lounge vibes 05 said:
Smart phones aren’t going anywhere.
Whenever people talk about some random AI gadget or wearable that might replace the smart phone, they conveniently leave out the thing that most people use their smart phones for…
Content consumption.
AI might replace a lot of things, but it’s not replacing video and pictures and games, all of which smart phones are excellent at.
Unless Johnny Ive and OpenAI’s device has a high resolution 6 inch or more screen on it that can fit in the palm of your hand, the smart phone is going nowhere.
People don’t want smaller screens, people don’t want a device where the only way to interact with it is talking to a chatbot.
Disagree all you want, but we’re still using the same basic desktop and laptop form factors that have been used since the 80s and 90s, and those certainly aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite how every couple years people go on and on about how desktops and laptops are going to be dead.
They are still here, phones will still be here many years from now.
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Of course laptops and desktops aren't going anywhere. However, smartphones have firmly supplanted them as the most important piece of tech in people's lives. Nothing is stopping a new type of device from doing that to smartphones as well. TV's didn't disappear with the advent of computers either. But the smartphone could be relegated to a similarly "dumb" screen, largely only used for content consumption. (Also ask the TV manufacturers how little money they make on those dumb screens.) Why use my smartphone to manually do something like make a bank transfer when I could simply ask my AI device to do it for me, while I continue watching a YouTube video on my smartphone?
 
theboyfrombonao said:
When i hear or see the word AI this this the first thing i think about is Jarvis & Vision
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I'm afraid I've got a bit of bad news for you...

Lounge vibes 05 said:
Smart phones aren’t going anywhere.
Whenever people talk about some random AI gadget or wearable that might replace the smart phone, they conveniently leave out the thing that most people use their smart phones for…
Content consumption.
AI might replace a lot of things, but it’s not replacing video and pictures and games, all of which smart phones are excellent at.
Unless Johnny Ive and OpenAI’s device has a high resolution 6 inch or more screen on it that can fit in the palm of your hand, the smart phone is going nowhere.
People don’t want smaller screens, people don’t want a device where the only way to interact with it is talking to a chatbot.
Disagree all you want, but we’re still using the same basic desktop and laptop form factors that have been used since the 80s and 90s, and those certainly aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, despite how every couple years people go on and on about how desktops and laptops are going to be dead.
They are still here, phones will still be here many years from now.
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Glasses. Some day, many, many, years from now, but that's the next big thing.
 
vipergts2207 said:
Of course laptops and desktops aren't going anywhere. However, smartphones have firmly supplanted them as the most important piece of tech in people's lives. Nothing is stopping a new type of device from doing that to smartphones as well. TV's didn't disappear with the advent of computers either. But the smartphone could be relegated to a similarly "dumb" screen, largely only used for content consumption. Why use my smartphone to manually do something like make a bank transfer when I could simply ask my AI device to do it for me, while I continue watching a YouTube video on my smartphone?
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At that point, why couldn’t you just… Ask your smartphone?
What’s the point of having a second device?
If the AI can bank in the background on a separate device, it can also do it just as easily on your phone.
Also, by the way that you were describing this mythical AI device… It sounds like a watch. And in case you can’t tell, smart watches… Already exist.
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
At that point, why couldn’t you just… Ask your smartphone?
What’s the point of having a second device?
If the AI can bank in the background on a separate device, it can also do it just as easily on your phone.
Also, by the way that you were describing this mythical AI device… It sounds like a watch. And in case you can’t tell, smart watches… Already exist.
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Is this a serious question? Siri sometimes can't even turn a light/fan on/off properly when I ask her to. I definitely wouldn't trust her to initiate a bank transfer for me. She'd be just as likely to send the entirety of my account to some prince in Africa as she would to properly move funds to my other account.
 
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Razorpit said:
Glasses. Some day, many, many, years from now, but that's the next big thing.
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Maybe, but even in that case, we know that Apple has been working on glasses for something like 10 years now.
So that doesn’t really fit the “Apple doomed because AI” narrative.
 
I love ChatGPT and use it daily on my iPhone. I use the free version (so 3.5), but I did read that ChatGPT Plus ALSO only has data up until 2022. So, that seems like a big drawback. Was hoping ChatGPT 4 would include current data but it does not.
 
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vipergts2207 said:
Is this a serious question? Siri sometimes can't even turn a light/fan on/off properly when I ask her to. I definitely wouldn't trust her to initiate a bank transfer for me. She'd be just as likely to send the entirety of my account to some prince in Africa as she would to properly move funds to my other account.
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Who said anything about Siri?
You said you need a separate AI device to do banking while you’re consuming content on your phone… Despite the fact that any small mobile AI device is going to have similar or worse hardware than your phone.
So… Literally just do it on your phone. No need for a second device.
Also using your banking example… Phones can already do banking just fine. They have NFC, they have the software, and they have the best mobile processors.
What is the benefit of this second device. Please explain it to me because I don’t get it.
In your hypothetical future, now I have to travel with two devices that do the same thing, my phone and whatever this AI gadget is. What is the benefit?
 
Open AI has a 10 Billion dollar investment from Microsoft and yet the Mac version of their Open AI ChatGPT 4o App comes first! WWDC is going to be great! I see what is going on here and I like it!
 
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Analog Kid said:
I've no interest in having a relationship with OpenAI, or having my personal information linked to a long term identifier such as my phone.

It's amazing what people are willing to give up for a little novelty.
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Personal information like a phone number? Oh the horrors. I remember in the '80s when everyone's lives were ruined by phone books... such a dystopia.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Who said anything about Siri?
You said you need a separate AI device to do banking while you’re consuming content on your phone… Despite the fact that any small mobile AI device is going to have similar or worse hardware than your phone.
So… Literally just do it on your phone. No need for a second device.
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Why do you assume the best AI algorithm will always be available on an iPhone? These are still early days. OpenAI for instance could decide to make only their best and latest version on hardware developed by them. On an iPhone it also exists as an app or a webpage. There's benefit to the AI being native to the device.

Maybe Apple launches an AI that surpasses what is out there. Maybe they license OpenAI's latest offerings for iPhones. There are multiple ways this could play out over the long-term. You seem to be under an assumption that smartphones' dominance can't possibly be supplanted by some other tech, when it very well could.

Lounge vibes 05 said:
Also using your banking example… Phones can already do banking just fine. They have NFC, they have the software, and they have the best mobile processors.
What is the benefit of this second device. Please explain it to me because I don’t get it.
In your hypothetical future, now I have to travel with two devices that do the same thing, my phone and whatever this AI gadget is. What is the benefit?
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So I can ask Siri to transfer money from bank account A to bank account B? That would be news to me.
 
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