The new ChatGPT features will be released to subscribers over the next two weeks. (Representative)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will allow the viral chatbot to make voice conversations with users and communicate using images, bringing it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple’s Siri.
The voting feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-oriented applications,” OpenAI said in a blog post on Monday.
Similar AI services such as Google’s voice assistant Siri and Amazon.com’s Alexa are integrated with the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders and deliver information over the Internet.
Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been used by companies for a wide range of tasks from summarizing documents to writing computer code, sparking a race among Big Tech companies to launch their own offerings based on generative AI.
ChatGPT’s new voice feature can also tell bedtime stories, settle debates at the dinner table, and speak users’ text input aloud.
The technology behind it is used by Spotify to allow the platform’s podcasters to translate their content into different languages, according to OpenAI.
With image support, users can take photos of things around them and ask the chatbot to “troubleshoot why your grill won’t start, explore the contents of your refrigerator to plan a meal, or analyze a complex graph on work-related data”.
Alphabet’s Google Lens is currently the popular choice for getting information about images.
The new ChatGPT features will be released to subscribers of the Plus and Enterprise plans over the next two weeks.
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