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Scam Altman says it’ll take another year before ChatGPT can start a timer. An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. (gizmodo.com)

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[–] pfried@reddthat.com 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This will actually be solved in a week. All it takes is to add the current time to each input.

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

Knowing what time it is now, and telling the user the timer has completed, are two separate things.

How useful is a “oh by the way your timer ended three hours ago” tacked on to the end of the next interaction?

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[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How about making it prompt itself when the timer ends? That solves "BTW it ended"

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[–] pfried@reddthat.com 1 point 5 months ago

In the video, ChatGPT was actually being used as a stopwatch instead of a countdown timer.

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