I have turned off all my notifications on my phone except for calls and blood sugar levels. I was constantly checking my phone when an application wanted my attention. It was causing me stress and using up my time. I even shut off the ring for the phone at times as I will get back to the caller later. I grew up when the phone was at home and you checked the answering machine when you came home. So peaceful when you can get rid of always being available.

I would like to have three physical buttons on the side of the phone, likely below the power button, that serve as redundant buttons for Back, Home, and Multitask. Leave the touch screen buttons there, but also put them on the side.

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I don't worship selfies either but I like taking photos of nature. A fast and hi def camera is essential. As is manual focus. I struggle to get clear photos of bugs since they took away manual focus.

My problem is I do so much shit on my phone that I actually need to do, I would definitely have to buy a laptop, and I really don’t feel like buying a laptop.

You can intercept every phone call in the world but you're no closer to finding a call organizing a terrorist attack.

A natural language model could act like an agent listening to every single conversation intercepted in far more depth than current search engines.

You create a prompt like "conversation between two terrorists planning an attack" and then compare every phone call's text to how similar it is to the prompt's output space.

You could also go deeper and also include every conversation they've ever had to see if it's a one-off false positive or there are "terroristic" trends to their speech.

You could also potentially link accounts and phone numbers and recordings by creating a style profile of known language and then again comparing an anonymous sentence to "in the style of Terrorist John Doe" to find potential linked data.

Said so as to suggest that AI is not already a powerful and dangerous tool in the hands of private corporations?

I want a thicker phone, not exceeding 1cm, that has an amazing battery. I also want the screen to be narrow enough that I can type one-handed.

Rugged flip phone (less damage while stored) with replacable battery and a physical keyboard that runs efficiently and has onboard back-up (including passwords) so it can be simply wiped and reset if malicious apps get in. No 'tracking' cookies allowed and 2 Sim and 2 memory storage slots. Waterproof with different cases available for personalization. I like the ring and magnetic options, but also want wireless charging. I'm finally over needing the 3.5 jack as wireless earphones are almost good enough and they actually have options that don't require you to put them IN your ear canal.

Cameras, speed and resolution are almost beyond what most people actually need, they are the least important parts to me, but I'm not a selfie-worshipping social media influencer.

Interface remains the biggest hurdle.

But functionality is still lacking. One example: If I am doing -whatever- on my desk top and need to websearch something, it's nearly instant. On my phone, not so much.

All data should be encrypted and our privacy respected so no conproration can use our personal data to feed some damn AI or use it with something like elastic search

MS tried non-rectangle phones, with keyboards - Microsoft Kin. The worst design failure in history of mobile phones ever.

Am I the only one who takes offense to the term "a ChatGPT"?

I would like to see them attached to a wall with a cord with a rotary dial where you have to memorize the number and it takes a long time to dial it in. No data, no text. Just talk.

You ever argue with someone on here that has a competent take on something and shifts goalposts through a conversation to attempt to invalidate what happened in reality and if you final pin them down on a fact you get banned from politics? Yeah that was one.

Fuck that, I want a tricorder with sensors n' shit.

You know how you can ask ChatGPT to tell you a story about a pirate, a tortoise and a golden bowl in the Shakespearean English? Imagine all media (music, movies, advertisement etc.) created by AI in a voice that always supports the existing political order.

"FutureChatGPT, please make a song about how power grid failures in Texas are caused by trans child abuse and make it sound like ZZ Top."

This is already happening.

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Key to house car taser Headphone Jack No more spam calls

Thank you, I wish I could give you 100 upvotes. I say the apex design was the blackberry! But the market disagrees with me. There is a reason keyboards for computers are not touch screens because that would be highly inefficient. people like how sleek touch screens are but they are a worse design.

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Maybe one of the most basic applications would be persistent infiltration of niche social organizations, such as radical groups, subversive organizations, etc. Get a profile set up, establish a presence, develop a track record with some credibility. Become an inroad for future interactions.

Rather than devoting a lot of agents to monitoring and working their way into groups, set up an AI to do it. Monitor what's going on and notify the agency if certain triggers are met. At that point a human could take over and begin the investigative process.

AI can be involved in tens of thousands of groups and always be engaged and responsive whereas an agent could not.

Also the ability to digest massive amounts of information and extract understanding from it, rather than looking for key phrases or keywords, then produce summaries of what the information relates to.

Imagine an algorithm that searches for keywords like "bomb" and then flags a conversation for review by an agent. That agent then needs to look at context and tangential information, go back and search profiles for previous posts and begin to try and put together a picture of what's going on, taking days or weeks to do so. An AI could do that for thousands of instances simultaneously.

Is any of this "concerning"? I guess I leave that up to the individual to decide for themselves.

Passively listening to, of course. Otherwise, government agencies have very little need to sew division for whatever nefarious plots they may have since Americans are dividing themselves. Mention the word "drag queen" to a Republican or "AR-15" to a Liberal and watch cities burn and Capitals fall.

>I’d be absolutely shocked if such a tool were not already in late-stage development, if not already deployed.

Me as well.

We see what the *relatively* budget constrained OpenAI can do. Now imagine an organization powered by $10,000 hammers.