Right to who? To me, the voice sounds like an over enthusiastic podcast interviewer. Whats wrong with wanting computers to sound like what people think computers should sound like?
(not that this is the most important thing about the announcement at all. Just an aside)
It worked surprisingly well. The video where he created the first iteration on stream(don't remember the watch party streams he ran the fans on): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MBKouvwaru8
It seems like we're in the skeuomorphism phase of AI where tools try to mimic humans like software tried mimic physical objects in the early 2000's.
I can't wait for us to be passed that phase.
"It looks like you entered the wrong number! Did you want to try again? Or did you want to talk to an agent?"
That sort of chirpy, overly enthusiastic voice?
Yeh it's cringe. I had to stop listening.
Why did they make the woman sound like she's permanently on the brink of giggling? It's nauseating how overstated her pretentious banter is. Somewhere between condescending nanny and preschool teacher. Like how you might talk to a child who's at risk of crying so you dial up the positive reinforcement.
I believe it can be toned down using system prompts, which they'll expose in future iterations
chuckling to 0%
no acting surprised
not making bullshit when you don't knowLLMs today have no concept of epistemology, they don't ever "know" and are always making up bullshit, which usually is more-or-less correct as a side effect of minimizing perplexity.
Also,
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It didn't do anything bad to Zaphod Beeblebrox, in a pocket universe created especially for him (therefore ensuring that he was the most important thing in it, and thereby securing his immunity from the mind-scrambling effects of fully comprehending the infinite smallness of one's place in the real universe).