GPT-4o

So OpenAI just launched GPT-4o.

“o” for omni. Or maybe “o-h no” because that what many builders of AI wrapper apps will be saying after today. As I watched the demos, I kept going “Damn!”. In an impressed sort of way. No, scratch that. In a mindblown sort of way is more accurate.

My top fav demos and moments:

• 2 GPT-4os interacting and singing with each other – Like Alexa vs Siri, but new. Imagine this is how telemarketing will be like in future. My AI talking to telemarketing AI, ad infinitum. Bye Bye telemarketing reps.
• Realtime translation with GPT-4o – Babel Fish is here. For fans of Hitchhiker’s guide To The Galaxy, you know. Bye bye Duolingo.
• It even gets dad jokes and sarcasm! No more using those as Turing Test for AIs…
• Varying tone of voice to suit the right mood – This feel way too human! And bye bye voice actors for audio books.
• Using it’s vision capabilities to flirt help – I feel like I just watched the 2024 remake of the movie Her (that one starring Joaquim Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson).
• New desktop app incoming – Can imagine indie hackers building AI desktop apps to be panicking now!

One small step for AI, a giant massacre for indie AI wrapper apps.

But with every new wave of products killed also means new ideas and opportunities that become possible. What new opportunities are there?

• Realtime conversational AI apps, like for life coaching, therapy, education
• Audio versions of everything - story books, novels, comics. Get it to tell stories to your kid.
• Great features for travel - point cam at something and have it explain to you what that is, like an audio guide for a museum. Translate in realtime when ordering food, buying stuff.
• I can speak to every doc on my laptop using the desktop app - PDFs, word docs, excel, websites, everything.

What other ideas and opportunities are there for new products?