Social RoboticsChatGPT gains voice conversation and image understanding
OpenAI let paying users speak with ChatGPT in one of five synthetic voices and share images for analysis.
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT could now listen, reply aloud and interpret pictures, calling it the biggest update since GPT-4. Voice was limited to the iOS and Android apps, with synthetic voices created with actors the company worked with directly, while image input was offered on all platforms. Coverage noted open questions about how voice data would be handled and about deepfake risks. Spoken, multimodal conversation with a capable model is close to what social robots need, and the update gave developers a ready-made voice pipeline.
Source: CNBC (via NBC 7 San Diego)
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