I think it’s basically already there.<p>Inspired by the robot video, I tried an experiment today.<p>While on a long walk to a store I had a voice chat with a ChatGPT app. I did a back and forth taco party planning conversation.<p>ChatGPT suggested taco themes based on the locally available ingredients. I’ve asked it to refine and replace some ingredients. We went back and forth on it for a few minutes.<p>Then I asked it to produce a shopping list. It did an imperial units list, I requested it to replace with metric.<p>Then I asked it to reformat the list to a markdown format with markdown check marks (- [ ]) so I could simply copy paste it into the note taking Bear app for the shopping process.<p>I was very impressed by everything and really felt like I was “in the future”!<p>Then I wanted to test it further. I’ve asked it if it knew another language that I’m fluent in. It accepted and I asked it to respond in that language. It obliged. Slight accent but not distracting.<p>I asked to play a game.<p>It asked for game rules.<p>I explained the game. I will provide clues and it should figure out what city I was talking about.<p>We went back and forth on the clues. It suggested correctly other cities than I was thinking of but they definitely matched the clues too. In the third attempt it guessed correctly.<p>Asked me for another round of game. :)<p>It was awesome!!<p>When I got back home I was googling how to replace Siri with ChatGPT.<p>Siri is just so bad it’s frustrating and feels like it’s just a waste of space.<p>For example I asked it today “hey siri when is the full moon?” It’s a frigging basic lookup question. It replied with “Here’s what I found on the web”. What???
Full title (too long to fit): Sam Altman may have Siri and Alexa in his sights after OpenAI filed a ‘digital voice assistant’ trademark application.<p>Trademark application appears to be for ‘Voice Engine’ [0]. This seems about as likely to be granted as the previous ‘GPT’ attempt.<p>[0]: <a href="https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98456635" rel="nofollow">https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98456635</a>
Seems likely that they would move into the voice generation platform arena like elevenlabs before competing with Siri/Alexa, but they’d likely add this functionality to ChatGPT at the same time as a demonstration.