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  • ChatGPT comes to WhatsApp

    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 19 02:31:25 2024
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    ChatGPT comes to WhatsApp
    <https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/chatgpt-comes-to-whatsapp-heres-how-to-message-the-ai-chatbot-for-free>

    WhatsApp will allow 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) as a contact in WhatsApp from anywhere in the world. This is a way to let people engage with AI even
    if they're on a low-data mobile connection.

    Users in the U.S. can call ChatGPT and have a voice conversation with the
    AI. This uses the same technology behind Realtime API.

    This is especially important for iOS because an iPhone is basically a dumb terminal, devoid of almost all "walled-garden" functionality without
    constant and forever 24/7/365 logging into Apple's Cupertino main frame tracking servers on the Internet.

    With ChatGPT on WhatsApp users will be able to ask questions like they were talking to a human, and do so without all the web overheads of the ChatGPT
    app.

    It uses the same GPT-4o-mini model that comes with the free version of
    ChatGPT.

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Andrew on Thu Dec 19 11:51:00 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, uk.telecom.mobile

    Andrew wrote on Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:31:25 -0000 (UTC) :

    ChatGPT comes to WhatsApp
    <https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/chatgpt/chatgpt-comes-to-whatsapp-heres-how-to-message-the-ai-chatbot-for-free>

    WhatsApp will allow 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) as a contact in WhatsApp from anywhere in the world. This is a way to let people engage with AI even if they're on a low-data mobile connection.

    Users in the U.S. can call ChatGPT and have a voice conversation with the
    AI. This uses the same technology behind Realtime API.

    This is especially important for iOS because an iPhone is basically a dumb terminal, devoid of almost all "walled-garden" functionality without
    constant and forever 24/7/365 logging into Apple's Cupertino main frame tracking servers on the Internet.

    With ChatGPT on WhatsApp users will be able to ask questions like they were talking to a human, and do so without all the web overheads of the ChatGPT app.

    It uses the same GPT-4o-mini model that comes with the free version of ChatGPT.

    I had forgotten to mention that, in addition to the world-wide WhatsApp
    chatgpt contact, you can also just call that same number directly using
    your normal cellular connection, even if you have zero data - and the
    ChatGPT AI will "talk" to you verbally.

    It's the same number for cellular calls as for the WhatsApp chatgpt
    connection. 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) but it may only work for USA and Canadian phone numbers according to this site I just checked for details.

    https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10193193-1-800-chatgpt-calling-and-messaging-chatgpt-with-your-phone

    But the WhatsApp connection is said to be world wide.
    It worked for me but I'm in the USA. Does it work for you in the UK?

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Andrew on Fri Dec 20 03:13:55 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, uk.telecom.mobile

    Andrew wrote on Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:51:00 -0000 (UTC) :

    It's the same number for cellular calls as for the WhatsApp chatgpt connection. 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) but it may only work for USA and Canadian phone numbers according to this site I just checked for details.

    Does anyone know if there is *any* free hands-free voice-only chat-GPT?

    I tested the "free" calls to 1-800-CHAT-GPT today on a variety of devices, where it works from Google Voice and from a cellular phone where it's completely hands free other than the initiation of the phone call itself.

    However...

    When I tested 1-800-CHAT-GPT today from WhatsApp (which works world wide),
    it worked only via "chat" mechanisms - not via voice-dialing mechanisms;
    so WhatsApp has it, but only in text (whereas phone calls are all speech).

    However...

    Empirically I learned you only get fifteen minutes per month for free
    (per phone number) hands-free 1-800-CHAT-GPT; so therein lies the rub.

    Since I'm trying to help the elderly as a volunteer in town, I asked
    CHAT-GPT how to *pay* for more than fifteen minutes of completely
    hands-free voice-only chat-GPT; but it didn't have any answer for me.

    Does anyone know if there is *any* free hands-free voice-only chat-GPT?
    --
    Note that I'm technically competent so I can make a phone or tablet or PC
    talk & listen after pressing microphone & speaker buttons; but they can't.

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