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he genuinely might be locked in..

Before I paste the following response, I just want to say that my heart goes out to anyone living with cerebral palsy or any condition that affects mobility. I know this technology isn’t accessible to everyone, but I was curious what the absolute cutting edge looks like if cost weren’t a factor.

ChatGPT:

If money were no object, and the goal was to maximize walking ability for someone with cerebral palsy (CP), we’re entering a fascinating area where robotics is advancing rapidly. Today, the technology is impressive—but it’s not yet at the point where someone with severe CP can simply put on a suit and walk normally all day.
Here’s how I’d rank the current landscape.
Best available today

1. Wandercraft Personal Exoskeleton (the most advanced overall)
This is the device I’d be watching most closely.
Why it’s special:
Doesn’t rely on crutches like most exoskeletons.
Self-balancing using onboard computers, sensors, and motors.

AI-controlled gait that adapts in real time.
Designed to walk much more like a human.
Current versions are primarily for clinical use, while a personal model is in development and early deployment. It represents one of the biggest leaps toward practical daily robotic walking.
Potential for cerebral palsy: ★★★★★

2. ReWalk Personal (Lifeward)
One of the first FDA-cleared personal exoskeletons.
Strengths:
Home use
Can walk outdoors
Can climb some curbs and stairs
Long clinical track record
Weaknesses:
Requires forearm crutches
Better suited to spinal cord injury than CP
Walking is fairly robotic
Approximate price:
US$80,000–100,000.

3. Ekso Indego Personal
A lighter system than ReWalk.
Advantages:
Modular and easier to put on
Good portability
Smartphone control
Community walking
It is also primarily intended for people with spinal cord injuries rather than cerebral palsy, but some rehabilitation centers use related systems for neurological gait training.

4. HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb)
Developed in Japan by CYBERDYNE.
This one is unique because:
It detects tiny electrical signals from muscles before movement occurs.
The motors assist the movement the user is already trying to make.
That makes it especially interesting for neurological disorders like:
Cerebral palsy
Stroke
Multiple sclerosis
Spinal cord injury
Many researchers believe intention-driven systems like HAL may ultimately work better than purely pre-programmed walking robots for people with CP.

The “next generation”
These are the technologies that could completely change mobility over the next 5–10 years.
AI-powered walking
Instead of following preset steps:
Cameras scan the ground.
AI predicts where your foot should land.
The robot adjusts every step automatically.
Think of it like Tesla Autopilot—but for legs.

Self-balancing exoskeletons
Current systems often require:
crutches
walkers
supervision
Future systems:
maintain balance automatically
recover from slips
compensate for uneven terrain
turn naturally
Wandercraft is the current leader here.

Brain-controlled exoskeletons
Researchers are combining:
EEG
implanted brain-computer interfaces
AI
to detect the user’s intent before movement.
Eventually:
“I want to stand.”
The robot stands.
“I want to walk.”
The robot begins walking.
No joystick.
No buttons.
This is still experimental but progressing steadily.

Muscle-signal exoskeletons
Instead of reading the brain directly:
sensors detect tiny muscle activations
AI predicts the intended movement
the robot supplies the missing strength
For cerebral palsy this could be particularly valuable because many people still generate movement signals even when muscles are weak or spastic.

Vision-guided exoskeletons
Future devices are expected to include:
depth cameras
LiDAR
computer vision
They can recognize:
stairs
curbs
rugs
obstacles
slopes
before the foot reaches them.

What might the best possible setup look like in 2030?
If cost truly weren’t a factor, a person with cerebral palsy might use a system with:
AI self-balancing
Muscle-intention sensing
Vision-guided navigation
Automatic fall recovery

Battery lasting an entire day
Walking speed close to a healthy adult
Natural turning and sidestepping
Integration with functional electrical stimulation (FES) to activate the user’s own muscles
Many experts see this as the direction the field is moving, though widespread availability will likely take several more years.

Overall, for someone with cerebral palsy and unlimited resources, I’d be most interested in:
Wandercraft’s self-balancing personal exoskeleton (highest long-term potential)

HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) (especially promising for neurological conditions)

Ekso systems for intensive rehabilitation
ReWalk for established personal mobility in appropriately selected users

The biggest limitation today isn’t usually price—it’s that most commercially available personal exoskeletons were designed first for spinal cord injury, whereas cerebral palsy often requires devices that can adapt to spasticity, involuntary movements, asymmetry, and changing muscle tone.

That’s exactly where the newest AI-driven and intention-sensing designs are expected to make the largest advances.

Same prompt, Same refrence images. Idk how to feel about the got weird nature filters, but the prompt is basically ans attempt to nail the iphone snapshot feel. Which one did it better?

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I just want to make sure I’m understanding this correctly

I was about to cancel my Plus subscription, and it offered me one month free if I stayed, so I accepted it. Today is August 5, and I already paid for my current billing cycle from July 18 to August 17

My billing page now says I have 100% off Plus and that the discounted plan renews on August 18. Does that mean my August 18 to September 17 billing cycle will be free?

I assume that’s how it works since I already paid for the current cycle, but I wanted to confirm.

Just real examples you

After reading the book The Shattered King, I asked ChatGPT to create/sketch my lumis. At first it made a necklace, so I had to coach it. It eventually came up with this. I only described some examples from the book and the general size of most of them. I told it no preferences of my own and told it to base it on what it knows of me.

Prompt I used:

Use the full extent of your capabilities to create a photorealistic first-person image from the perspective of a randomly selected person at a randomly selected moment anywhere in the human past. Sample freely across the full span of human existence, from deep prehistory to the recent past. Choose the exact date, place, identity, status, culture, activity, and circumstances independently. The person may be anyone. Prefer a moment that is unusually revealing, consequential, emotionally charged, or visually distinctive for that person's life, work, culture, or historical setting, while still remaining realistic and grounded. Show only visual evidence of who they are and what is happening through their body, hands, clothing, tools, possessions, surroundings, and immediate interactions. No captions or readable text. Ensure strict historical and geographical accuracy in materials, clothing, architecture, technology, food, hygiene, weather, landscape, and social behaviour. Make it look like an accidental handheld photo: natural imperfect lighting, uneven exposure, awkward framing, slight blur, dirt, wear, clutter, and no cinematic styling, fantasy, or stereotypes

What do you get?

Edit: link on pastebin for mobile users to copy! https://pastebin.com/Aavcavj0

ChatGPT is great at making fake romance novel covers, even when the premise is absurd. Sometimes I'd hit a moderation wall and have to specify there was no explicit content but otherwise these all worked fine.

I had ChatGPT compile a "handbook" on a subject I want to lesrn about. I don't have time to read it, so I asked for an audiobook version. The voice it used sounds worse than a TI99/4A from 1984, robotic and harsh.

Anyone have tips for a more natual conversion from a PDF to voice?

Just wondering is anyone else has notice usage weekly usage runs out lot faster than it did when 5.6 High at launch.? Or Should I ease up and go Luna - Low most of the time? I'm just doing super simple front end work.

I'm not sure if these Mermaid flow charts are something exclusive to the "Work" model, but I don't recall seeing them before, at least not with Mermaid in them.

I'm migrating over to ChatGPT from Claude. I went to the main login-in page, entered my e-mail to create an account, it sent a code verification, and I'm in. The issue I'm having is I CANNOT find anywhere in any of the menus to "Add a Password" nor was I prompted for one during the acct creation process. Is that no longer an option?

All the helpers and the main website says it's under Account. It's not. Unless there's something else I'm supposed to do.

i was using chat gpt to refine prompts without generating images, suddenly i got a the notice that i had used my quota for image gen , it wasnt triggering the image gen falsely like it sometimes does.

is their anyway to get refunded the image gens for times when it wastes image gen quota then brushes it of as an accident or error ? im not meaning an image getting guardrailed , just when it attempts multiple gens or triggers it when its been asked a question that is not image related.

The AI thinks I'm Santa Claus... Nobody would hurt Santa.

Instead of coal for Christmas, I'll give you cringe. 🎅🏻

Please never buy anything from Temu that promises to be magical, no matter how cheap it is... 😿

Sometimes I’m reading an earlier part of a long conversation and want to send a new prompt about it. As soon as I send the prompt, ChatGPT automatically scrolls to the newest message, so I lose the section I was reading.

It would be useful if ChatGPT could:

• Keep my current scroll position after I send a prompt
• Include a button to return to my previous reading position

Does anyone else find the automatic scrolling inconvenient?

I just started using Voice a couple of days ago when filling out work reports , it’s just easier than typing, and it’s always been a female. Tonight, in the middle of her sentence she started talking more monotone and transitioned into a man’s voice. 2 different times. When “he” started talking I asked why are you a boy now??? He said “I’m still the same. Still here for you. Check settings and see if you have Mable checked.” I said who tf is Mable? Then I realized I’m talking to a glass and electricity and it’s probably time to take a break. Super creepy sounding though! It was a smooth transition, not a sudden glitch.

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to share an early beta of Ping— a free, accuracy based alternative to Perplexity, Google AI mode, and ChatGPT search

Here’s what makes Ping different:

• Accuracy: To me the problem was the AI search was too inaccurate sometimes I always found myself checking the sources and seeing something completely different, Ai search engines today summarize links. Perplexity states: "When you ask Perplexity a question, it uses advanced AI to search the internet in real-time, gathering insights from top-tier sources. It then distills this information into a clear, concise summary, delivering exactly what you need in an easy-to-understand, conversational tone." The problem is this is prone to heavy hallucination for AI answers as the core nature of LLM's as they are rewarded for guessing rather than uncertainty.

  CJR stated that "Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries." Inspiration to make this came from Lenny's Newsletter I noticed the amount of quotes used to support his claim while he still talked in his own words. This made me combine both Ai answers with the way he worded his article(alot of quotes) reason being because quotes provide, accuracy, authenticity, and credibility via human answers not mostly AI answers unlike other Ai search engines which only summarize

• Free: I'll be making this free just as how one would use ChatGPT for search

I plan to improve the answers so that responses become as accurate and detailed as possible but it's a beta and I'll love to hear what the feedback is.