I wrote off ChatGPT's voice mode, then found 7 ways it's genuinely useful

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Over the past year or so, I've had the opportunity to talk with OpenAI. Most of the time, those conversations have been about programming or coding-related capabilities, but recently, I had a discussion about Voice Mode.

OpenAI wanted to get across a number of examples you can do with it. The last time I took a look at Voice Mode, I was assessing its technical knowledge. The AI fabricated answers in order to provide rapid responses which, at that time, nerfed its usefulness to me.

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After that fail, I ...