It spun into a series of thoughts:
1. Phone calls are an established technology, people are used to picking up the phone and calling someone for a chat. It's much more natural than opening up a web app to talk
2. Millions of people don't have access to reliable 4G/5G where they live but still have cell signal. Those people would probably still want access to an AI.
3. Why don't I just build this?
4. I should build this.
So I built it: https://paradisesignal.com
I think I'll lose money from this. The gpt-realtime model is insanely expensive compared to text. But I want to give it a try and see if there's a need out there.
While I've been debugging and testing I've noticed something strange. I feel much more of a connection to the AI than I do in a regular web chat. I started greeting the AI each time I called it and I wouldn't hang up until we'd said goodbye. Maybe that's because I'm used to doing that on phone calls.
Anyways, if you live or work in a remote area I'd love to get some feedback and users. The AI remembers past conversations in detail, up to a point, so you can have coherent talks to it.