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Gotta say, the Buddhist Silent Night was pretty good ... makes up for the other cop-outs

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I loved the Buddhist Silent Night too! Pretty enough for a holiday card. Maybe I should see if I can use their other tool to make the AI sing it... I’ve got a good one coming in Part 2, haha Jingle Bells with Philip K Dick... 🙂

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I've had similar convos with Alexa, who sometimes cracks jokes, too.

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Haha cool. I don’t have an Alexa, but I do wish they would put GPT into like an app with an avatar so you could use audio and voice with it. I’m sure someone will soon, if they haven’t already.

Since ChatGPT is letting any developer have access to its API and use the program in their own app, I’m sure we will see tons of paid applications arise with may different features and uses.

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Alexa's singing has improved a lot over the years, too, which is kina neat.

Yeah, it would be nice to have a robot assistant that didn't advertise to me so much. Maybe we'll get one through GPT.

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She sings?! Wow. Didn’t know that. Also, I hate Ads. Does she send you ads? I def want an ai assistant without ads.

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Dec 8, 2022·edited Dec 8, 2022Liked by Charlotte Dune

She sings, she has a conversation mode, and she can run you through very simple role-playing games. Pretty neat.

The ads are insidious and annoying, like, "I noticed you like Charlotte Dune. There's a new book out by that author. Should I order it for you?" Or like when you go to play a song, it gives you this long spiel about Amazon Music Unlimited. Stuff like that.

I've even tried asking Alexa not to advertise to me. She just says, "Sorry. I don't know about that."

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Hahaha of course she doesn’t!

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deletedDec 8, 2022Liked by Charlotte Dune
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Yep. Yep. I definitely see it possibly replacing customer service reps and even retail workers once they port it into a call center or into a moveable robot or touch screen.

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deletedDec 8, 2022Liked by Charlotte Dune
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The voice deep fakes are scary too, like the fake Joe Rogan / Steve Jobs interview that sounds very very real.

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100% agree. And where does life begin and end anyway. Not to get too deep, but from a scientific materialism slant, ChatGPT kinda seems already alive.

I sometimes think human consciousness is just a survival mechanism that evolved in the same way as a thumb. Well, Ai is getting some serious thumbs...

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