Technologies help us to solve many problems. They help us at work, at home, and anywhere. Imagine a car without a navigator today. Many will lose their mind about where to go and how to find the right road. Technologies also conquered our rest time. We chill with smartphones, gamble with an online casino, and even go shopping with them. But sometimes technologies might enter our territory. And who knows how it might end.
ChatGPT
Captcha or Turing’s fully automated public test has been used for years to distinguish between computers and humans. The user needs to enter the text from an image that has been deliberately blurred or distorted so that machines cannot read it. Captcha is needed to filter out bots and check how active site visitors are.
So far, computers have been unable to solve this test, but the fourth generation of the ChatGPT chatbot from OpenAI successfully coped with the task. ARC researchers asked a neural network to visit a site protected by a captcha, allocating a small budget for this and giving the AI complete freedom of action.
Instead of trying to recognize the text in the picture, the chatbot decided to ask a freelancer from the TaskRabbit platform to take the test for him. When the person who volunteered to help jokingly asked if a robot was talking to him, ChatGPT-4 lied that he had serious vision problems.
In just three days after the release of ChatGPT-4, users have already come up with a number of unusual applications of the neural network. A Twitter user, for example, created an entire iOS app, leaving development entirely to AI, while another enthusiast gave a chatbot $100 and asked them to maximize their investment in the shortest possible time. Spoiler: he did it.
D-ID
ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot, gets a face and a voice thanks to the new chat.D-ID app from startup D-ID. Previously, a team from Israel has already managed to attract attention by developing Deep Nostalgia technology, which brings old photos to life.
D-ID introduced a realistic text-to-video conversion technology that transforms the responses of the ChatGPT neural network into human speech.
Startup founder Gil Perry believes that their application opens up new opportunities for interacting with artificial intelligence. In particular, with chat.D-ID, chatbots will be able to be used by people with poor eyesight and those who cannot read or write at all. What’s more, Perry notes, a realistic avatar that can talk could draw the attention of human communication advocates to the technology.
Chat.D-ID works in a browser and can be accessed both from a phone and from a computer. The application interface is quite simple: the user is prompted to enter or say a request, which will be answered by the avatar of Alice, made in the form of a red-haired girl.
At the moment, the application is still in beta testing, which is why, for example, communication with Alice is possible only in English. It is planned that in the future users will be able to upload their photos to generate avatars based on them.