OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
ChatGPT is coming to phones. No, not smartphones — landlines. Call 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-CHATGPT), and OpenAI’s AI-powered assistant will respond as of Wednesday morning.
“[Our mission at] OpenAI is to make artificial general intelligence beneficial to all of humanity, and part of that is making it as accessible as possible to as many people as we can,” OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil said during a livestream. “Today, we’re taking the next step and bringing ChatGPT to your telephone.”
The experience is more or less identical to Advanced Voice Mode, OpenAI’s real-time conversational feature for ChatGPT. ChatGPT responds to the questions users ask, and can handle tasks like translating a sentence into a different language.
OpenAI is offering 15 minutes of free calling for U.S. users.
ChatGPT is also available on WhatsApp for those who prefer to text the assistant. It’s a basic back-and-forth conversation; given that it’s WhatsApp, you won’t find the customization options that the official ChatGPT app offers.
As with ChatGPT on the phone, you don’t need an account. OpenAI says it’s working on additional features for the WhatsApp experience like image analysis and web search, but no word on when those might ship.
“We’re just getting started making ChatGPT more accessible to all of you,” Weil said.
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