ChatGPT update will give it a voice and allow users to interact using images

OpenAI's ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like Apple's Siri. The voice feature "opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications", OpenAI said in a blog post on Monday. Similar AI services like Siri, Google voice assistant and Amazon's Alexa are integrated with the devices they run on and are often used to set alarms and reminders, and deliver information off the internet. Since its debut last year, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for a wide range of tasks from summarizing documents to writing computer code, setting off a race among big tech companies to launch their own offerings based on generative AI. Google has imminent plans to launch its answer to ChatGPT, called Gemini, which is reportedly already being tested by a small group of companies.