Enjoying Holiday Interactions with Google and ChatGPT: AI Entertainment Guides
'Tis the time of year for joy as Google and OpenAI unwrap a trove of thrilling new AI capabilities, designed to bring delight to users during the festive season.
Question Santa AI
ChatGPT's Advanced Speech feature has become even more festive with the advent of “Santa Mode”. Invoke St. Nick to reminisce about his list of naughty and nice kids, share intimate life insights, and drift off to sleep with visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in your dreams.
To engage, tap the microphone symbol on the mobile app's bottom right corner, then navigate to the upper right filter icon to choose a voice. Flip the switch to “Santa: Merry and Bright” and request a story. The soft sound of sleigh bells rings as Santa welcomes you with a hearty Ho Ho Ho.
Play AI guessing games
If you're a ChatGPT Plus member, indulge in the fun of activating “Vision” and “Screen Share” in the mobile app to let ChatGPT catch sight of you, your surroundings, and your phone screen. OpenAI showcased this capability as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” by having its Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil introduce ChatGPT to his team, then ask it to divulge details about who was sporting reindeer ears and who was donning a Santa hat. A captivating guessing game to try in your own home.
Beyond mere amusement, ChatGPT's upgraded vision capabilities allow it to serve as a more helpful coach by guiding users through holiday meal preparation or post-dinner dance moves, and offering advice on text messages from party-delayed guests.
Create a holiday AI video
OpenAI has rolled out Sora, its AI text-to-video generator, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers who can now log into Sora.com to craft as many as 50 five to ten-second 480p to 720p videos each month.
By simply inputting a prompt like “a playful orange cat pastry chef baking a cake in a festive kitchen”, miraculous clips come to life, such as the beloved “Festive Feline Baker” now gracing the community thread on the Sora site.
In its present form, Sora resembles other AI video generators like Midjourney, Runway, and Synthesia, but its integration into the ChatGPT app promises to transform the chatbot into a truly multimodal marvel.
Engage with AI podcast hosts
One of the many exciting features unveiled by Google this week with the launch of Gemini 2.0, its cutting-edge model for developing multimodal AI agents, is the long-awaited upgrade to NotebookLM, a beloved tool enabling users to upload up to 50 sources such as PDF manuals and web links, generating a summary where two AI podcast hosts discuss takeaways from the materials. Now, users can click the “Join” button to pose questions to the podcast hosts during the show. Available to select testers and set to roll out for Google One users.
- This holiday season, given the innovation by Google and OpenAI, I might indulge in a fun chat with Santa using ChatGPT's advanced 'Santa Mode'.
- The 'Vision' and 'Screen Share' features of ChatGPT Plus, showcased by OpenAI during their '12 Days of OpenAI', can add a layer of excitement to AI guessing games at home.
- Utilizing the new AI video generator Sora, integrated into ChatGPT Plus, I can create a holiday-themed video like the 'Festive Feline Baker'.
- With Google's Gemini 2.0 launch, I can engage with AI podcast hosts by uploading sources and posing questions during the show using the upgraded NotebookLM tool.
- The multimodal AI marvel that ChatGPT is becoming, with features like Sora and Gemini 2.0, is bringing the touch of technology and AI excitement to our holiday celebrations.
