On Tuesday, OpenAI launched an official ChatGPT app for Android, now obtainable within the Google Play Store in 4 international locations: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with extra coming quickly. As a consumer for OpenAI’s language mannequin household, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 fashions run on the cloud and supply outcomes to your Android machine. It additionally integrates OpenAI’s Whisper mannequin for speech recognition.
ChatGPT, launched in November, is a conversational AI language mannequin interface. As an AI assistant, it might probably assist with summarization, textual content composition, and evaluation. OpenAI payments its use circumstances as a method to search “prompt solutions,” “tailor-made recommendation,” “artistic inspiration,” “skilled enter,” and “studying alternatives.”
Nevertheless, as we have noted in the past, ChatGPT is often susceptible to confabulation (that’s, making issues up)—particularly the GPT-3.5 mannequin—so it is not totally reliable as a factual reference. It will possibly turn out to be useful as a method to analyze knowledge you present your self, although, as long as you are acquainted with the subject material and may validate the outcomes.
Just like the iOS version of the ChatGPT app, the Android model hyperlinks to your present ChatGPT account and may synchronize chat historical past between gadgets. It additionally helps ChatGPT Plus subscription account options, reminiscent of entry to the GPT-4 language mannequin and a few Beta options like Custom Instructions.
Utilizing the app feels just like a text-messaging expertise, with an enter field on the backside of the display screen and a scrolling dialog historical past between you and ChatGPT taking over many of the app’s interface. At any time, customers can rapidly begin new conversations by swiping the enter bar to the suitable. Historical past is out there in a “three-dots” ellipses menu within the upper-right nook.
ChatGPT for Android requires Android 6.0 and up and has already racked up over 500,000 downloads, in response to stats discovered on the Google Play Retailer. OpenAI plans to broaden the ChatGPT Android rollout to extra international locations over the subsequent week.