I believe that the latest update to ChatGPT’s voice chat reflects a deeply misguided direction taken by the development team. While the text-based version of ChatGPT remains an excellent language model and artificial intelligence system, the voice interface has become an unmitigated failure.
Despite numerous attempts, I have consistently received answers marked by extreme vacuity and an inability of the voice mode to adapt to my specific requirements. My personalized instructions demand the highest level of academic rigour, proper citation of scholarly sources, and syntactic precision. Yet the voice interface completely disregards these parameters and instead produces hesitant, sluggish responses seemingly designed to mimic an average human being.
But this is precisely what I am not looking for as a user of artificial intelligence. I am not interested in the simulation of a cognitively average person. What I expect, quite obviously, is an AI capable of operating well beyond the cognitive, syntactic, and discursive norms of the general population.
As it currently stands, ChatGPT’s voice chat feels indistinguishable from a trivial conversation overheard at a bar counter, with someone of limited education and poor expressive ability. This leads me to question what OpenAI’s target user base truly is: is the goal to cater to those who consume AI as they would binge-watch a television series, or to address the needs of intellectually demanding users who expect serious, high-level performance?
I would be grateful if you could respond clearly and in detail regarding your long-term development objectives, and what ambitions you hold for the voice chat interface.