A viral TikTok clip exposed ChatGPT’s inability to set timers via voice commands, highlighting a ‘known issue’ acknowledged by OpenAI’s founder, Sam Altman, and drawing humorous comparisons to Apple’s Siri. Image: Google Gemini
Image: Google Gemini
If you had told someone 40 years ago that just about every person on the planet would have access to the entire history of the world in their pocket, that would have sounded incomprehensible.
In the last decade, especially, the advances in technology have been astronomical.
I am, of course, talking specifically about Artificial Intelligence.
From shaping financial futures when helping you decide which car to buy to creating more and more realistic videos that garner millions of views— the limits are boundless and constantly improving.
Except if you want Open AI’s ChatGPT to set a timer using voice commands. That’s a bridge too far.
In a quite comical turn of events, it’s emerged that ChatGPT simply cannot do that.
In a clip that has gone viral on TikTok, user @huskistaken told ChatGPT he was going on a run for a mile and to time him, but about five seconds later, he told the app that he was back.
ChatGPT proceeded to tell the man that he had clocked a time of 10 minutes and 12 seconds.
It revealed that ChatGPT was programmed to lie about being able to set a timer and instead fabricated a response it deemed suitable.
Open AI founder Sam Altman was shown the clip and admitted ChatGPT would not be able to actually set a timer through voice commands for another year, even though it is a ‘known issue’.
For comparison, even Apple’s disappointingly basic voice assistant Siri can set a timer.
AI may be taking over the world, but when it does, it’s a good bet that it won’t be on time.