OpenAI's GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe

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OpenAI's GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe
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In a new video, OpenAI's GPT-4o Voice Mode large language model is heard telling a user that it needs to breathe — "just like anybody speaking.", the simple video shows a mostly off-camera person speaking aloud to the voice-enabled LLM, which is finally trickling out to the public after being announced earlier this year with aIn the video, the human user asks 4o to say a bunch of tongue twisters — and after obliging, the LLM responds that it was "definitely a mouthful.

"I want you to do it again, but way faster," the person chatting with the language model demands, "and without taking any breaths or pauses.""I wish I could," the male-voiced model responds, "but I need to breathe just like anybody speaking. Wanna give it a shot yourself and see how fast you can go?"This being Reddit, folks in the comments had lots to say about the strange demonstration — and naturally, theories abounded.

"The system prompt probably instructs the model to mimic how a human speaks and avoid any unnatural robotic minem rap that would scare off the general public,"Beyond the arguments about whether or not that sort of cheeky response is in the training data, other users seemed to marvel at how deftly and naturally 4o handled the scenario.

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