OpenAI is rolling out the ability to carry on conversations with a human-sounding robot on the ChatGPT app. Alexa and Siri are about to get really jealous. The voice technology smart speakers are being taken on by a full-fledged humanoid AI robot being rolled out on the ChatGPT app for Plus paying customers. Starting this week, a new feature will be available on the iOS and Google Play ChatGPT apps that could potentially eliminate the need for keyboards. Let's dive in and see exactly what is going to be at our fingertips.

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.

Alexa, Siri and Google Home might be making children less intelligent and socially stunted, it was claimed today. The voice-controlled devices -- popular in homes across the world -- allow users to ask questions and receive answers. But this may impede youngster's learning skills, critical thinking and empathy, says Dr Anmol Arora, a researcher at Cambridge University. Dr Anmol Arora, a researcher at Cambridge University, says this is down to the tech only offering short and concise answers to questions, inappropriate responses and being unable to give feedback on their social skills. Alexa, Siri and Google Home might be making children less intelligent and socially stunted, according to an artificial intelligence expert.

We're seeing life-changing advancements in various aspects of our professional and personal lives as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives From using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to unlocking our mobile phones using face recognition, we're using the technology more frequently than we think Technology has progressed to model and algorithm-based machine learning, with an emphasis on perception, reasoning, and generalisation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has benefited a variety of industries in recent years and will continue to do so in the future. AI has fuelled the development of numerous advancements, including the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, analytics, and voice assistants! We're seeing life-changing advancements in various aspects of our professional and personal lives as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives. From using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to unlocking our mobile phones using face recognition, we're using the technology more frequently than we think. We see AI's capabilities every day, whether it's on social media when we see a personalised feed, running a Google search about the latest movie we watched and finding the best match for our search even before we finish typing, and much more.

Chatbots and voice assistants have changed the way we interact with machines. But as humans and computers start to speak the same language, a lot of fascinating enterprise applications are starting to emerge for voice-enabled tech. There are a wealth of transcription and translation services now available, for example. You can also manage your schedule and book appointments by invoking your omnipresent voice assistant. And the Capacity knowledge management platform helps organisations mine data -- but then makes this information available to staff via a chatbot.

Alexa can tell you the weather, turn on your lights and even tell you a joke. But if you really want to have a meaningful conversation with a computer, it is probably going to have to be a quantum computer. Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), the 2014-founded startup, says it has built "meaning-aware" natural language processing on a quantum computer. The system understands both grammatical structure and the meaning of words, in a way that classical computers cannot. "This is quantum native, it cannot be done with a classical computer with a reasonable amount for resources."

One in every four adults in America now owns a voice-activated smart speaker. While we love the convenience of talking to a gadget to play music, make calls, and such, most of us get a little creeped out when they "wake up" when they're not supposed to. I often trigger Siri when saying "seriously," or "Suli" – the name of my parents' dog. My friend Bill Keeshan says his Alexa connected device "gets triggered by my daughter saying'actually.'" All too familiar anecdotes aside, researchers at Northeastern University and the Imperial College of London spent the last six months streaming 125 hours of popular Netflix TV shows to a handful of voice-activated smart speakers.

Smart speakers, like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri, have come under fire over the past few years for'listening' to its owner's conversations. Now, a team of scientists believe they have developed the ultimate weapon to block the devices' spying abilities - a wearable that jams the microphone. Dubbed the'bracelet of silence', the chunky bracelet is fitted with 23 speakers around it that emit ultrasonic signals that drown out any speech of the wearer. While these ultrasonic signals are undetectable to human ears, they leak into the audible spectrum after being captured by the microphones, producing a jamming signal inside the microphone circuit disrupts voice recordings. Scientists developed the ultimate weapon to block the devices' spying abilities - a wearable that jams the microphone.

Artificial Intelligence Technology has many useful applications in the world and it's currently starting to appear in various applications. These include home technology, automotive, space tech, industrial, manufacturing, business systems and supply chain operations. Business systems such as ERP systems are now starting to introduce both machine learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Machine Learning is a scientific study of statistical models and algorithms that many computer systems now use to perform specific tasks, without using a defined instruction. They rely on established patterns of operations, doing the same sort of processes every day.

How to ensure human autonomy over our computational "screens, scenes, and unseens." Digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri and Google Assistant can be quite helpful -- but their actual allegiance is to Amazon and Apple and Google, not to the ordinary people who use them. By introducing AI-based digital agents that truly represent and advocate for us as individuals, rather than corporate or government institutions, we can make the Web a more trustworthy and accountable place. In the 2004 film "I Robot," Will Smith's character, the enigmatic Detective Del Spooner, harbors an animosity toward the humanoid-like robots operating in his society. Over the course of the film we learn why.