One Wild Weekend Talking with AI

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I’ve been pondering a world where we use natural spoken language for all computer interactions. I have used a keyboard and mouse all my life, so it is an adjustment to speak rather than type. Over New Years 2025, I had a week alone at home, while my family traveled. I thought I might experiment.

This story describes a transformational experience with Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT.

Here’s what happened:

Friday Night

📱 I logged into GPT on my phone, donned my Bose headphones, and asked for advice on Voice interaction. After eight simple tips, I started a new thread with a foundational voice prompt: “Summarize my startup’s strategy and status.”

✅ Within seconds, I heard the usual, accurate summary. (In ChatGPT, see Settings, Personalization, Memory). When GPT first included a reference to my son in an unrelated chat, it freaked me out. Now, I love that GPT has an up-to-date understanding of my business, as a foundational context, from which to help me with any new idea.

After the start-up summary, our conversation then shifted into a brainstorming discussion:

• I explored use cases, SEO strategy, and how prospects might perceive different concepts.
• At various points, I asked for lists—like 5-10 URL ideas for specific market scenarios.
• One hour later, I was giddy. The ideas were flowing faster than I could process. Seriously, I had to stop to calm down for sleep!

Saturday Morning

🔍 Some quick research revealed I’d been using Advanced Voice Mode, which reacts to emotion, emphasis, and cadence. The experience felt so dynamic!

Saturday Night

📱 Back to continue the conversation. Before starting, I gathered my thoughts using cutting-edge technology: a pen and notebook!

1. I provided five foundational concepts for consideration.
2. I asked for five web-researched & GPT-ranked concerns from our target prospect’s perspective.
3. Then, I requested fifteen questions that our prospects might Google-search based on the combined list of ten.
4. Finally, I asked for ten web URL names appropriate to SEO the answer, for each of the fifteen questions.

💥 That’s 150 URLs in one go—delivered in real-time by voice! We know LLMs can crank out lists but hearing one read-aloud, rapid-fire, had me laughing uncontrollably.🤣 My cat was concerned for me! 🙀

Again, I had to pause and regain my composure.

And then it hit me: What do I even do with this?

💡A Light Bulb Moment💡

I shifted gears and asked ChatGPT to:

📋 Organize all of our ideas, from both nights of discussion, into a brief summary with reasoning behind the structure. ✅ Then…

📝 Write a two-page essay reflecting on everything we’d discussed.

As GPT read the essay aloud, I was stunned by the clarity and depth.

Then, in true Ghostbusters fashion, like Ray Stantz (Dan Akroyd) muttered before the Stay Puft ⛄Marshmallow Man appeared, “it just…. popped into my head.”

🎞️ “Please create a slide deck that sells the concepts in the essay!”

💥 Boom. Done in seconds.

Are those two outputs perfect? No.

Helpful? You cannot imagine!

Monday Morning

During the standing Monday call with my partner, we:

• Paged through and discussed the slides.
• Read the essay, paragraph-by-paragraph, noting what struck us.
• Identified eight key foundational ideas that are now part of our strategy, some provided by each of the three participants.

Reflecting on the Experience

This wasn’t just helpful—it was truly transformational. To have a real-time, emotionally responsive Strategy Agent verbally discuss concepts, then produce an essay and a slide deck in seconds, lead me further into the future of work, where we use AI as a Creative Thought Partner.

💬 If you’re curious about what’s possible with GPT Advanced Voice Mode, try it. You might just find yourself doubled over in laughter— or at a new strategic milestone on your entrepreneurial climb!

Update: Since that weekend, I am using voice input more-and-more often. It takes practice. For example, try voice recording to a google doc, then using ChatGPT to clean up and format. Its amazing!