Have you tried Whisper from OpenAI? It’s the best I’ve ever seen. I’m curious how it would handle accents.

I’m not ready to talk about it in detail. Even my boss doesn’t know. But you’re in the right ballpark.

I’m actually building a proof-of-concept prototype for what I want to work on… and I’m using a browser extension so that I can build it independently without anyone from the tech team being involved and slowing me down.

Yes it is the paid version, and you should not wait until your budget loosens up.

This is an absolutely CRITICAL new technology. Think of it the way we think of the boomer generation when the computer revolution hit.

Some of them got on board and learned to use this new tech, and some decided it was too hard and assumed they’d never really need it.

I shit you not, learning how to really use gpt-4 has made me probably 100x more efficient at my job in all kinds of ways… most of them unexpected.

Within a few years the workforce is going to be divided between people who are super workers using gpt-4, and people who aren’t.

Someone out there is going to figure out how to use gpt-4 to take your job. So, if you’re smart, you still decide to be that someone.

And you’re already 5 or 6 months late to the party.

In my experience, what makes gpt-4 great for coding is its astonishing knowledge of available software libraries, built-in interface features, etc.

I’ll tell it the task I want done, and it will tell me where to find, and how to install the necessary dependencies.

With zero experience in browser extension design, gpt-4 helped me to build an incredibly complicated Chrome extension, using vector database; creating a custom, cloud-based server; web scraping with headless browsers, voice recognition, speech synthesis, wake-word capabilities, and a sophisticated user interface. I had ZERO experience with ANY of these.

For me, using gpt-4 was like collaborating with a just okay programmer, but one who had extensive experience with literally every programming language, API, protocol, etc.

And it was a collaboration. We would talk through problems together. I would make observations and guesses about why a block of code wasn’t working, and it would tell me why I was wrong, or alternately tell me I was right, and produce a fixed version.

I always use lines with cashiers because:

1. their jobs will evaporate if people don’t use them

2. self checkout means that you’re doing that job FOR FREE for the company

He has escaped + shift + ZZ’ed this mortal coil.