Is OpenAI All Hype?
Plus how to use Claude Projects
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
June 27, 2024
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Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today
🤖 OpenAI Delays Voice Model
✨ How To Use Claude Projects
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💰️ Newly Added AI Tools
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OpenAI delays ChatGPT’s new Voice Mode
OpenAI has delayed the launch of ChatGPT's highly anticipated Voice Mode feature until July or later, despite initially planning to roll it out to select users by late June. The company needs more time to refine the model's content detection capabilities and user experience to ensure it can handle real-time responses at scale.
Voice Mode aims to enable more lifelike conversations with ChatGPT, allowing the AI to speak and respond to verbal and non-verbal cues.
The alpha phase will now begin in July with a limited user group to gather feedback before a wider release.
Controversy arose when Voice Mode's voice resembled Scarlett Johansson's without permission, prompting OpenAI to remove the contentious voice.
YouTube Negotiates with Music Labels for AI Training
YouTube is in talks with major music labels to license songs for its AI tools that can generate music mimicking popular artists' styles.
YouTube is offering upfront payments to Sony, Warner, and Universal Music to convince more artists to allow their music to be used for training AI.
The platform aims to sign up dozens of artists and launch a new AI song generator in 2024, separate from its previous "Dream Track" experiment.
Many artists remain opposed to AI-generated music, fearing it could devalue their work, while labels are cautiously exploring AI opportunities.
ChatGPT desktop app for macOS is now available for all users
OpenAI has released a ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, making the popular AI chatbot more accessible to Mac users. The app integrates with macOS, allowing users to access ChatGPT's features from anywhere on their Mac using a convenient keyboard shortcut.
The ChatGPT desktop app for Mac was announced in May and is now available to all users
It includes an Option + Space shortcut to quickly access ChatGPT features like file uploads and screenshots
The app supports voice conversations with ChatGPT, offering a choice of four AI voice styles
QUICK TIP
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✨ How To Use Claude Projects
Yesterday Claude released Projects, which is the equivalent to OpenAI’s custom GPTs.
To start a new project, click on the orange “Create Project” button
Then, you’ll want to give your project a name and a description.
After you give your project a name click on “Add New Content”. This will prompt you to add documents like PDFs or word docs. You can upload from your computer or add text content.
You can also set custom instructions for your project.
Once you’re done, you can start having conversations with your project, and the Project will follow the instructions and documents you provided.
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MORE NEWS
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How Anthropic’s ‘Projects’ and new sharing features are revolutionizing AI teamwork (link)
Owner of Toys ‘R’ Us just used OpenAI’s Sora to animate the zombie brand (link)
OpenAI CTO Sparks Controversy Over Creative Jobs Take (link)
NBC Brings A.I. Al Michaels to Peacock for Customized Paris Olympics Recaps (link)
Meta alum launches AI biology model that simulates 500 million years of evolution (link)
Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers (link)
ChatGPT's writing style has infiltrated over 10% of scientific abstracts since its launch, study finds (link)
Rabbit R1 security issue allegedly leaves sensitive user data accessible to anybody (link)
New computational model of real neurons could lead to better AI (link)
Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research (link)
Harvard dropouts raise $120 million to take on Nvidia’s AI chips (link)
Google to showcase AI, new Pixel phones at surprise Aug 13 event (link)
Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (link)
AI’s Hidden Opportunities: Shawn "swyx" Wang on New Use Cases and Careers (link)
Beehiiv has acquired Typedream, an AI-based website builder (link)
Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting (link)
Mozilla rolls out the first AI features in Firefox Nightly (link)
Samsung just announced a date for its next Galaxy AI updates (link)
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FROM THE WEB
✨ Is OpenAI All Hype?
We're sharing an update on the advanced Voice Mode we demoed during our Spring Update, which we remain very excited about:
We had planned to start rolling this out in alpha to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users in late June, but need one more month to reach our bar to launch.… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— OpenAI (@OpenAI)
9:35 PM • Jun 25, 2024
OpenAI showcased its voice model a few months back and caused quite a frenzy. Everyone was excited to try it out as the demo’s made it seem like we were one step closer to living like Iron Man.
But now they are saying they don’t have an ETA on when the voice model will be released…and people are starting to believe that OpenAI is all hype.
Bad idea. The Voice Mode can end up like Sora - lots of cool demos, but without the final product, other companies decided to release something like that earlier.
— Everett World (@WorldEverett)
10:07 PM • Jun 25, 2024
Biggest rug pull in history.
Many people signed up for Plus with the expectation that voice would be available “in the coming weeks”. You guys knew you didn’t actually have a product but dangled it out there in order to take users’ hard earned money.
You guys are quickly… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Free (@KaladinFree)
9:57 PM • Jun 25, 2024
Observation: none of the OpenAI "user interface" hype features have stuck
Plugins died, GPT Store died, Voice is delayed, Memory is mediocre
Core model and API are solid
But all the "this changes how people use AI!" hype stuff has bombed.
— Benjamin De Kraker 🏴☠️ (@BenjaminDEKR)
10:57 PM • Jun 25, 2024
Let’s face it OpenAI has done this a few times. First, it was with Sora, their AI-video generator tool, and now the Voice model…
Hopefully, they release something mind-blowing soon.
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