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5 Reasons to Use OpenAI's ChatGPT App for Mac
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Looking forward to inputting the prompt: "Only give me researched, true answers to questions I have" and watch the thing blow up. The accuracy ratio on "generative AI" is DISMAL
Subscription + new way to hoover your data = Hard Pass!
I wonder if it will even matter?
I know so many people that know so very little about history, technologies they use, language, general how-to on things around cooking or home repair, art, music, etc -- just pick the topic and they know about none of it if it's not "what celebrity X is doing" or whatever the latest dumb Netflix show is all about.
Somehow we have "information at our fingertips" yet so many people are incredibly inept and totally uninteresting
This article/ad seems to be written by ChatGPT!
Might want to mention that it’s only available for M series Macs.
On May 13, OpenAI during its Spring Update announced that it would be releasing a desktop ChatGPT app for the Mac in the "coming weeks," and said that ahead of a wider launch it had started rolling out the app to some ChatGPT Plus subscribers.
After testing the app for a few days, we thought it was worth sharing some reasons why ChatGPT users may find that the Mac app is a useful addition to their AI-assisted workflow.
Access the ChatGPT Launcher
For a while now, it's been possible to use OpenAI's chatbot on iPhone via the official ChatGPT iOS app, but most desktop users have relied on visiting the website in a browser. Thanks to ChatGPT for Mac, things feel a lot more integrated. Using the keyboard shortcut Option + Space, you can instantly invoke the app's Launcher and ask the conversational AI to help you with some task or project, but you also get fast access to several other key features.
The small window that appears on your desktop feels similar to when you invoke Spotlight (Command + Space) in macOS: It floats above any windows or apps that you have open and feels just as convenient. A paperclip button lets you include a file or photo that you may want to get help with, and adding an attachment sends it to ChatGPT where you can ask follow-up questions in a dedicated app window.
Take a Screenshot
Clicking the paperclip icon also brings up some useful additional options, such as the ability to take a screenshot of any open app window (even if it's off-screen) or your entire desktop, and query it with ChatGPT. For example, we queried a screenshot of a recent MacRumors article covering Apple Music's Top 10 Albums of All Time, and asked ChatGPT to provide a summary of top critics' reviews for each album, which it duly did.
On another occasion, we got ChatGPT to extract the text from a dropdown selection menu on Apple's website and format it in HTML as an unordered list, which it did in seconds. From proofing an open document to getting troubleshooting help, it's easy to imagine all manner of scenarios where this feature could help save time and improve productivity.
Currently, it's not possible to directly query ChatGPT about what is shown on your Mac's screen, but OpenAI says this feature is coming in a future update.
Take a Photo
"Take a Photo" is another option that you can access via the paperclip button. Clicking it automatically brings up the current output of your Mac's FaceTime camera or an attached webcam.
This is useful if you just want to hold an object in front of your Mac that you'd like to query. However, you can also select the camera of your nearby iPhone, which gives you more freedom to move around and line up the subject of your photo more carefully.
The only problem right now is that the shutter button remains on the camera feed on your Mac's screen, rather than switching to your iPhone. This is probably an oversight that OpenAI will rectify soon.
Customize ChatGPT
In the app's settings (accessed via ChatPGT ➝ Settings… in the menu bar when the app's main window is active) there are several options that let you customize how ChatGPT works. You can control whether or not OpenAI uses your content to train its models, as well as change the desktop launcher keyboard shortcut and enable/disable GPT capabilities including web browsing, DALL·E image generator, and Code Interpreter.
You can also add custom instructions that influence how ChatGPT responds (also known as prompt engineering). So you can make responses more formal or more casual, or specify how long or short they should be. You can also personalize ChatGPT to cosplay a certain profession or character. If you want it to respond like an academic thesis advisor, or Samuel L Jackson, for example, you can specify that in settings.
The main app window also lets you access your conversation history and switch between any custom GPTs you have parked in your sidebar. Not only that, you can choose which version of ChatGPT you wish to query. For example, the introduction of the new multimodal GPT-4o model enhances response times, improves reasoning capabilities, and offers a better understanding of images and other content types.
Voice Chat
When interacting with ChatGPT in the app's main window, there are buttons to dictate your query or alternatively start a two-way voice chat with the bot. In theory it sounds great, but in practice there's a delay between responses, and you have to wait for ChatGPT to stop speaking before you can give it a follow-up query or command. It's also not possible to access other features like taking a photo via voice. Fortunately, there's more to come on this front.
At OpenAI's Spring Update, the company demoed ChatGPT's new real-time voice conversation feature, which includes the ability to interrupt the chatbot and redirect the conversation. As of writing, the ChatGPT Mac app does not support these features, but OpenAI says we should see them added to GPT-4o in the coming weeks.
Summing Up
If you are a regular user of ChatGPT on Mac, using OpenAI's official app should be your go-to method of interactig with the AI chatbot. For a first version, the client is surprisingly polished, and invoking the Launcher via a keyboard shortcut makes using ChatGPT quicker and easier than ever before. It also offers a peek into a possible future where ChatGPT is fully integrated with Apple's operating systems.
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Getting sick of being left out due to “performance” with an i7-7700k.
Load of bullsh**
Wrong on each sentence.
The problem is that I do have knowledge of it. As I previously posted, it doesn't work as intelligence as we would normally call it.
I give no advice. I only offer opinions, which are of limited value.
I will stick with the manual method of using a Mac.
Time to upgrade sir, you will greatly improve your experience.
Unless you're using your Mac for basic tasks but then still - you'll have a much better battery.
Fantastic news for my Hackintosh and 2015 MBP 15"!!
Their second sentence is AI generated
Not yet. But I think it will get there and we have no idea what this will mean for humanity to be quite honest.
Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolved math problem
They had to throw away most of what it produced but there was gold among the garbage.
No thanks. I have enough subscriptions as it is, $20 just isn't in the budget. Thanks though.
Yeah, I'm like... did ChatGPT write this?
To think you have the ability to recognize ALL AI-generated images where professional artists, people from well-known galleries, and magazines have been repeatedly fooled is sheer audacity.
Actually, that’s a leak. Apparently, Apple has been working on a flying car!
We have the sum total of human knowledge available in an instant in our hands.
We use this device to post cat pictures and argue with strangers in the internet.
Seems like ChatGPT will fit right in.
I agree, maybe if the cost was like $12/year then it might be worth it to see all of the errors, misrepresentations, non-compilable code, etc. that is generated.
Just for you non-tech folks there is currently no "I" in "AI", it is just a massive search that picks commonly used sequences of words and spits them out. Oh it uses some complex algorithms to seem to make the results relevant, but you cannot trust the accuracy, so what is the point.
Honestly, it's awesome at coding. It helps if you are already a developer so you can ask it the right kind of questions. But overall, it's a huge productivity booster. Also things like photo-editing it's been very valuable.
This is still not available for even paid users. I have not found an accurate way to bypass the 'you do not have access to the desktop yet', message. The app updates almost daily, but doesn't work on Mac yet.
Maybe one can open Siri and ChatGPT at the same time and have them chat to each other.
Leave the computer for a few hours and then see what happens. Ideally, Siri would have learnt something, but it's more likely you'd end up being responsible for making ChatGPT dumb.
I just tried it and got: "I'm not sure how far away it is from Japan to Brazil by car, but it's about 10,554 miles as the crow flies."
I don't know why it has "away" in there either.
I just watched a youtube video of a guy who used ChatGPT to modify a script for use in the new Logic Pro 11. It worked perfectly. Is that bad?