OpenAI on Thursday launched a mobile app for ChatGPT, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) interface that is already experiencing phenomenal growth on the web, and whose impressive capabilities amaze and amaze.
The new application is available on iPhones in the United States, to begin with, and should arrive “soon” in other countries and on mobiles operated by Android (Google), according to a press release from the Californian start-up. Free, it allows, like the website, to discuss with the chatbot and especially ask it to write messages, explain technical concepts, suggest ideas, summarize notes…
OpenAI promises, for example, “get accurate information without having to sort between ads or multiple results”, the current model of search engines. But when first opened, the app warns as soon as ChatGPT may “provide inaccurate information about people, places, or events.”
100 million monthly active users
Launched at the end of November, the ChatGPT website surpassed one million users in one week, a record. Two months later, the service already had some 100 million monthly active users, another record according to a UBS study released by the press. Microsoft, the main investor in OpenAI, has integrated the broad language model on which ChatGPT is based into Bing, its search engine, and Google is about to release a test version with generative AI.
This lightning-fast adoption of ChatGPT and other generative AI software (computer code, images, sound, video) is causing critical concern in many industries. Les enseignants voient leurs élèves déléguer leurs dissertations à ChatGPT, de nombreux emplois administratifs mais aussi créatifs sont menacés, les élus politiques craignent que cette technologie ne favor de la désinformation de plus en plus sophistiquée et des poursuites ont été lancees en justice sur des ques tions of intellectual property.
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, advocates for government intervention to better regulate artificial intelligence. At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, he said AI has “the potential to improve almost every aspect of our lives,” but “it also creates serious risks.” OpenAI wants to achieve so-called “general” AI, that is, programs with human cognitive capabilities.
ChatGPT’s success also creates opportunities for hackers: Meta (Facebook, Instagram) warned earlier this month against rogue programs pretending to be AI tools.
Source: BFM TV
