ChatGPT from OpenAI to Receive Major Upgrade with Ability to ‘Hear, See and Speak’
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is receiving a significant upgrade that will allow the widely popular chatbot to engage in voice conversations and interact through images, bringing it closer to widely used AI assistants such as Apple’s Siri.
The voice feature “opens the door to many creative and accessibility-focused applications,” OpenAI said in a blog post Monday.
Similar AI services, such as Siri, Google Voice Assistant, and Amazon.com’s Alexa, are integrated into the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders and relay information from the Internet.
Since its debut last year, companies have adopted ChatGPT for a wide range of tasks, from summarizing documents to writing computer code, sparking a race among Big Tech companies to launch their own generative AI-powered offerings.
ChatGPT’s new voice feature can also tell bedtime stories, resolve conversations at the dinner table, and speak aloud text written by users.
Spotify uses the technology behind it for the platform’s podcasters to translate their content into different languages, OpenAI said.
With image support, users can take pictures of things around them and ask the chatbot to “troubleshoot why the grill won’t turn on, examine the contents of the refrigerator to plan a meal, or analyze a complex graph of work-related data.”
Alphabet’s Google Lens is currently a popular choice for acquiring image information.
The new ChatGPT features will roll out to its Plus and Enterprise subscribers over the next two weeks.
