OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model offers promise of improved smartphone assistants
by Alex Hern UK technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6MSYC)
System can operate directly in speech, speeding up responses and noticing voice quirks, but it still needs the power of Siri
In the year and a half since the launch of ChatGPT, one nagging question has only got more pressing: if AI can do this, why is my phone's assistant still so bad?
On Monday, the gulf grew larger still, as OpenAI announced a new model called GPT-4o - the o' stands for Omni - which gives the chatbot new abilities to understand and create audio, video, and still images.
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