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.
Users will also be able to share images with ChatGPT and highlight areas of focus or analysis (think: "What kinds of clouds are these?").
The big feature push comes alongside ever-rising stakes of the AI arms race among chatbot leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft , Google and Anthropic.
Experts have raised concerns about AI-generated synthetic voices, which in this case could allow users a more natural experience but also enable more convincing deepfakes.
OpenAI acknowledged those concerns in its Monday announcement, saying that synthetic voices were "created with voice actors we have directly worked with," rather than collected from strangers.
Persons:
OpenAI's, OpenAI, Bard chatbot, Bing, Andreessen Horowitz
Organizations:
Microsoft, Google, Sequoia Capital