Got a flip phone or — oh, the horror — a house phone on a landline? No problem, OpenAI has your back.
You can call 1-800-CHATGPT and talk to ChatGPT for free for 15 minutes.
I just did it. Asked it a couple of math problems (it was right) and then asked if it could help me get over my sadness (it said it could, but I didn’t know where to go from there). But it doesn’t have access to the internet, nor can it serve real-time information. Therefore, you can’t ask, “What movies are playing tonight at the AMC in Pottstown?”
Well, you can ask (as I did), but it won’t have an answer.
I use ChatGPT to help me write code, generate ideas, and edit stuff I’ve written. I can’t do that through a voice conversation. I get the accessibility, but I’m not sure of the utility at this time. 1-800-CHATGPT is more of a novelty than anything else.
However, it’s another canary in the coal mine of where we’re headed. Siri, Alexa, and Google already have us speaking to our devices, and it’s becoming more and more natural.
The horseless carriage, the Wright Flyer, and the Univac were all initially clunky sideshows. Novelties. Curiosities. Barely worked.
Normal often starts as a clunky sideshow that barely works.
