Why can't ChatGPT Voice set a timer? | Voice AI expert explains
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Julia Turc
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Julia Turc
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Why it matters
Builders shipping voice interfaces get a mechanistic account of why fluent audio models still fail at trivial deterministic tasks, and where the pipeline (not the model) is at fault.
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ChatGPT Voice, despite its general intelligence and audio fluency, fails in unexpected (and often trivial) ways, including counting letters or keeping track of time. Even the newest update (GPT-Live) suffers from many of these issues. Jiameng Gao is a voice AI expert, who has built two startups in the space. We watch videos from @HuskIRL with ChatGPT failures and hypothesize what could be causing them. 🔗 Jiameng Gao: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiameng-gao-9bba7378/ https://router.audio/ 00:00 Intro 01:00 Why can’t ChatGPT beatbox? 04:17 Why doesn’t ChatGPT let you have the last word? 08:11 Why can’t ChatGPT keep track of time? 14:12 Why can’t ChatGPT count letters in a word? 18:10 Why does ChatGPT hallucinate inputs? 20:28 Why does ChatGPT pretend to love you? 24:38 Vertical vs horizontal AI companies 27:06 Why doesn’t ChatGPT take emergencies seriously? 32:04 Exciting opportunities in voice AI
