I very much agree with this premise. My skills fall into three camps: That which I have invented myself, from first principles; That which I have read one book on; and That which I am bad at.

One of the things I am bad at is finding books. Books are everywhere, most books are rubbish, and yet every book I've had recommended has been amazing. So, does anyone have a good book on finding good books?

If it’s going to take general artificial intelligent to get a voice assistant that can remember not one, but two entirely separate cooking timers, then so be it. Imagine the GPUs required!

I’m still baffled at Siri and Google assistant. Virtually zero innovation in a decade. I just want to be able to turn on BBC radio while my hands are wet, is that really so hard?!

Those voices were already prohibited. This ruling specifically addresses agents "emulating human speech and interacting with consumers as though they were live human callers when generating voice and text messages".

Based on the (alarming) demo on Air.ai's homepage, that sounds like it would be prohibited unless the user consented to be contacted in that manner when providing their phone number.

The ruling specifically only applies to the initiator of the call. IVR is not covered. Automated calls are also permitted with consent (for instance, if you sign up for notifications for filled prescriptions or backordered library books). It has nothing to do with the quality of the voice -- prerecorded voices are banned too.

Anyone had luck getting this going in GPT-4 yet? I tried a couple of the chat-specific agents in langchain a couple days ago but it seems like the extra chat RLHF makes GPT-3.5/4 stubborn about not wanting to write messages in the needed format. I could get it working some of the time, but it was really unreliable. Next up I’ll try Simonw’s (the G.O.A.T.) micro-lib for this.

Also, man, what an annoying context to see “As a language model I cannot…”.