ChatGPT can now ‘speak,’ listen and process images, OpenAI says

CNBC September 25, 2023
Hayden Field,Rohan Goswami

Key Points

– OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now “see, hear and speak,” the company said.

– The update to the chatbot will roll out to paying users in the next two weeks, OpenAI said.

– OpenAI’s big feature push comes alongside ever-rising stakes of the AI arms race among chatbot leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Anthropic.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now “see, hear and speak,” or, at least, understand spoken words, respond with a synthetic voice and process images, the company announced Monday.

The update to the chatbot — OpenAI’s biggest since the introduction of GPT-4 — allows users to opt into voice conversations on ChatGPT’s mobile app and choose from five different synthetic voices for the bot to respond...

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