Since ChatGPT debuted Hundreds of millions of people experimented with it in November online chatbot, that can answer questions, write poetry, compose e-mails and discuss almost any topic in a web browser.
On Thursday, OpenAIthe San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind ChatGPT, has unveiled a new version of the chatbot for iPhone and hopes to build on its tremendous popularity.
Unlike the browser-based version of ChatGPT, the smartphone app responds to voice commands and works a bit like Apple’s Siri digital assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. The app does not respond with voice but generates text responses.
in one blog entryOpenAI said the app is part of its effort to transform its AI research into “useful tools that empower people while continually making them more accessible.” It declined to comment further.
By offering its flagship technology to billions of iPhone users, OpenAI is solidifying its position among the giants of the tech industry. ChatGPT is the most prominent example of what is known as 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 started introducing this technology to a variety of online services.
The result of more than a decade of research at companies like Google and OpenAI, these chatbots are poised to redesign everything from web search engines like Google Search and Bing to email programs like Gmail and Outlook.
You can generate digital text that can be used in almost any context, for example for students to write term papers and for business people to create e-mail messages and other marketing materials.
The technology is not perfect. Because these chatbots learn by analyzing large amounts of digital text from the internet, they cannot distinguish between fact and fiction. And the computer code they generate is often buggy.
Today, technology serves to complement the human workforce rather than completely replacing their skills.
OpenAI isn’t the first to introduce technology that allows people to use ChatGPT with voice; Some small businesses and independent developers have already done so. Microsoft also offers a version of its Bing chatbot that responds to voice commands.
The new iPhone app is free. ChatGPT Plus subscribers – available for $20 per month – can use it 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 will expand to other countries in the coming weeks. A version of the app for Android phones is also in the works.
