OpenAI is launching ChatGPT on Apple’s app store as the company moves forward with plans to expand its popular artificial intelligence chatbot to a wider audience.
The new app mirrors the ChatGPT website, allowing users to ask questions on their mobile devices and receive answers written by AI. The app also incorporates his OpenAI’s speech recognition technology called Whisper, allowing users to speak to the AI engine to prompt them.
This is the latest in a string of product launches over the past six months as big tech groups and start-ups race to bring generative AI tools to market, following the launch of ChatGPT last November.
The ChatGPT app helps Microsoft-backed OpenAI further develop large-scale language models, the powerful technology behind chatbots, and make its research more consumer-friendly.
The app is initially available in the US and will be expanded to other countries and Android devices in the coming weeks.
“With the ChatGPT app for iOS, we are taking another step towards our mission by turning cutting-edge research into a useful tool that empowers people while making them more accessible. ,” the company said in a blog post.
ChatGPT became an overnight Internet sensation when it was released in November, breaking new ground as one of the first consumer AI applications widely available to the general public. The chatbot gained over 1 million users in his first three days and by January it is estimated that his number of monthly active users reached his 100 million.
With an interface that answers simple questions, the technology has been hailed as a breakthrough moment in AI that threatens to disrupt markets ranging from education and media to Google’s search engine.
ChatGPT chatbots can reach a wider audience through mobile apps than desktop alone, helping accelerate technology advancement.
The information that users input into generative AI software helps train models to become more powerful and secure, acting as a form of reinforcement and feedback.
CEO Sam Altman says the company’s ultimate goal is to create artificial general intelligence — machines that are as intelligent as humans.
The ChatGPT app comes amid growing scrutiny of this nascent field by regulators and governments around the world, as well as concerns from some AI ethicists about the potential abuse of the technology. Appeared in
Earlier this week, Altman attended a hearing before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and Law, calling for regulation of the rapidly advancing technology he helped build.
The purpose of the ChatGPT iPhone app is to make this technology available to more users, but the tech group also decided to generate AI on mobile devices instead of cloud servers to reduce high computing costs. I’m rushing to find a way to do it. .
Google announced last week that it has successfully run a version of PaLM 2, the company’s latest large-scale language model, on Samsung Galaxy devices. This change could make it much cheaper for businesses to operate services such as chatbots, paving the way for more innovative applications using generative AI.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by some of tech’s most radical thinkers, including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, as a non-profit organization for the safe development of powerful AI. The company has since evolved into a for-profit company, with Microsoft confirming a multi-billion dollar investment in January, reportedly valued at around $29 billion for the startup.
