Since ChatGPT debuted in November, hundreds of millions of people have experimented with this online chatbot. This chatbot can answer questions, write poetry, draft emails, and lift almost any topic from within your web browser.
OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind ChatGPT, announced Thursday a new version of its iPhone chatbot in hopes of building on its immense popularity.
Unlike ChatGPT’s browser-based version, the smartphone app responds to voice commands and behaves like Apple’s digital assistant Siri or Amazon’s Alexa. The app generates text responses instead of voice responses.
In a blog post, OpenAI said the app is part of an effort to transform its AI research into “a useful tool that empowers people while making them more accessible.” He declined to comment further.
By bringing its flagship technology to billions of iPhone users, OpenAI has cemented its position among the tech giants. ChatGPT is the most prominent example of so-called generative AI, a technology that can generate text, images, and other media based on short prompts. Google, Microsoft, and various startups have released similar bots and are beginning to deploy such technology across a wide range of online services.
The product of more than a decade of research at companies like Google and OpenAI, these chatbots will reinvent everything from Internet search engines like Google Search and Bing to email programs like Gmail and Outlook. I am poised.
You can generate digital text that can be used in almost any situation, such as a student writing a regular report or a businessman writing an e-mail message or other marketing material.
Technology isn’t perfect. These chatbots learn by analyzing vast amounts of digital text culled from across the internet and are unable to distinguish between fact and fiction. And the computer code they generate is often flawed.
Today, technology tends to complement human workers rather than outright replace their skills.
OpenAI isn’t the first to introduce technology that enables ChatGPT to be used with voice. Some small businesses and independent developers already do. Microsoft also offers a version of his Bing chatbot that responds to voice commands.
The new iPhone app is free. ChatGPT Plus (available for $20/month) subscribers get a more powerful version of the chatbot based on a technology called GPT-4.
OpenAI began rolling out the app in the United States on Thursday and plans to expand to other countries in the coming weeks. A version of the app for Android smartphones is also in development.
