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I'd like to give a URL to an article to some app and have it read the article out loud to me. I tried the Android apps of ChatGPT and Gemini already but neither of them could do it. ChatGPT provided me with a text input element in the speech mode but said that it can't read the article out loud: It could only summarize it. Gemini wasn't even aware of its own interface: It kept asking for the URL in a chat, which doesn't exist in the speech mode where we were communicating. It then started speculating about how websites typically work which has notning to do with our interaction.

Is there some app that could do what I ask for: I give a URL, and the app reads the article out loud, preferably in the background i.e. in such a way that I can turn off the screen of my Android phone while it keeps reading.

Note also that the app should be smart enough to realize what is the interesting content on the web page, i.e. not read out loud any irrelevant headers and sidebars and footers and menus etc.

I recently watched a YouTube video where someone reacted to Sam Altman's statements. One comment he made left me wondering if I've missed something in the current "AI summer." Altman suggested that "robots will do all current jobs on our behalf, and we humans must therefore find new things to do."

If I understood correctly, it seems like OpenAI's leader is implying that large language models (LLMs) have something significant to contribute to robotics. This strikes me as curious because, as far as I know, these are two very different problem domains. Only one (LLMs) has experienced rapid advancements recently, while the other (robotics) hasn’t.

Robotics in the physical world demands fast and precise responses. A robot walking to a grocery store and picking up items, for example, needs quick and accurate decision-making to avoid falling, breaking things, or picking up the wrong items. LLMs, on the other hand, provide slow, approximate answers that often resemble truth but can include hallucinations. This works well for paraphrasing non-exact information but seems ill-suited to the precision robotics requires.

So, my questions are:

1. Have LLMs contributed to advancements in robotics? 2. Is there any reason to believe they will?

From my understanding, the current paradigm of LLMs relies on scaling compute power for diminishing returns, which is the opposite of what useful robotics needs: efficient and accurate computation.

I know I can discuss matters and get code snippets from ChatGPT but is it yet viable to integrate some AI-whatever to an IDE and some project management system and just observe the tool generate a draft pull request from some ticket in the project management system that I as the human developer responsible for the task can then review? My assumption is that there is no such seamless solution yet and I'm not sure whether will ever be but I also feel like I want to keep myself up to date about whether there has been advancements worth noting. If you know of such working solutions that you are satisfied with, please share the exact toolchain: which IDE, which AI-thingy and which project management thingy?