For the tenth day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled out a technique to name ChatGPT for as much as quarter-hour at no cost over the cellphone utilizing 1-800-CHATGPT.
The function was a mission spun up just some weeks in the past, OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil mentioned on the livestream. Customers can now name ChatGPT within the US and message by way of WhatsApp globally at 1-800-242-8478. The 15-minute restrict is per cellphone quantity per thirty days, so actually, you may spin up a couple of Google Voice numbers to get as a lot time with it as you need.
The cellphone quantity is constructed utilizing OpenAI’s Realtime API, and the WhatsApp function is powered by GPT-4o mini by way of an integration with the WhatsApp API.
OpenAI sees this function as an necessary stepping stone for newcomers to AI, for the reason that service represents a simplified model of ChatGPT in comparison with its web-based counterpart and affords a “low-cost technique to strive it out by way of acquainted channels.” The corporate notes that present customers in search of extra complete options, increased utilization limits, and personalization choices ought to proceed utilizing their common ChatGPT accounts by way of conventional channels.
Funnily sufficient, Google launched an identical device in 2007 known as GOOG-411, which supplied free listing help by voice. The service was discontinued in 2010 with out an official rationalization from Google, however some speculate that it was shut down as a result of the corporate had already achieved its underlying objective: amassing a ample database of voice samples to advance its speech recognition know-how.
On the time, Google VP Marissa Mayer mentioned it outright: “The speech recognition specialists that we have now say: If you’d like us to construct a extremely strong speech mannequin, we want numerous phonemes, which is a syllable as spoken by a specific voice with a specific intonation. So we want lots of people speaking, saying issues in order that we are able to finally practice off of that. … So 1-800-GOOG-411 is about that: Getting a bunch of various speech samples in order that while you name up or we’re making an attempt to get the voice out of video, we are able to do it with excessive accuracy.”
OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson mentioned the corporate gained’t be utilizing these calls to coach massive language fashions.
