Tangential, has someone tried to have two chatGPTs chatting together? Like the good old joke which consists of dialing two random persons and have them discuss together.
This would be so easy to solve with the right software. I'm amazed that even after years of pandemic all the solutions I'm aware of are still such crap.
Discord is pretty good at this (channels, not calls), but there are probably even better paradigms (there still has to be a way to participate in multiple conversations at once).
I tried to propose an idea where I work of having a threaded chat room to mimic conversations in the hall. It could get even better by having some intelligent gleaning of conversation keywords and showing those visibly by each chat room, so people know when their ears should be tingling and can join in on the conversation.
The method of a single chat room means multiple crossing conversations become hard and there's constant distraction trying to see what people are talking about only to find it's not interesting to you.
Actually it makes a lot of sense. You can have a deeply hierarchical conversation, with lots of back and forth and branching to separate threads - and yet which only contains two people.
What I do is call person B and then when the call is started add person C. Usually in a group chat if I hit the call everyone button it’s by mistake haha
What about adding a random conversation starter? Maybe it's just me, but I've always found it awkward when a conversation is forced (i.e. two random people pushed into the same chat room, now talk).
I've seen something like this attempted before. It suffered from this problem:
A <---> B <---> C
A and B are 1 mile apart. B and C are 1 mile apart. B can see what both A and C say, but A can't see what C says to B and hence will see out-of-context messages from B.
It looks like Kiwichat attempts to solve this by having dedicated chatrooms rather than just phasing people in and out of visibility to each other based exclusively on proximity, though I'm curious what happens when you physically leave the coverage area for a chatroom.
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what kinds of things have you made talk to each other that weren't originally designed to talk to each other?
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