ChatGPT can talk now, threatening Alexa and Siri

Up to now, people could ask ChatGPT questions by speaking them out loud on its mobile app, but the bot would respond with text. OpenAI also said people can now upload images as part of their questions to the bot, such as showing a photo of the ingredients in a fridge and asking ChatGPT to come up with recipe suggestions. Adding voice and image capabilities also puts ChatGPT further along the line toward becoming a true "multimodal" model -- a chatbot that can "see" and "hear" the world, and respond with voice and images, in addition to being fed text-only prompts. AI researchers and analysts say multimodal models are the next stage of competition in the industry, and companies are racing to create the most capable one.