OpenAI announced the availability of the official ChatGPT app for iOS and with it the use of the popular AI chatbot v iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets.

Many dubious and unofficial ChatGPT services hit the App Store weeks ago. As announced, the official client for Apple mobile devices is now coming. It’s free and ad-free, although it’s only available in the United States at the moment. The company assures that they will soon expand it to the international market and also announced that An Android version will be available “soon”.

ChatGPT jumps to mobile

You already know that ChatGPT is a fashion chatbot. Since hitting the general public last November, it has gained massive popularity and forced other tech giants to launch their own solutions, with Google Bard as the main contender. Although so far it has been accessed via the web via “chat.openai.com”, mobile apps for major platforms are planned to be launched.

ChatGPT for iOS essentially offers what its desktop counterpart does, allowing users to interact with the chatbot’s AI, asking questions and getting answers in any field without having to do a traditional web search. Still in the “prototype” stage, the chatbot has been refined using Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) using the GPT model (currently in version 4), the neural network it runs on, believed to be the largest in the world. a planet of its own kind.

The mobile app syncs your history across all devices, meaning it will know what you’ve previously searched for through your web interface and act accordingly. The app is integrated with Whisper, the voice recognition system OpenAI, which allows you to interact with a chatbot using voice input.

Access is as simple as downloading the app from the App Store on an Apple mobile device running iOS 16.1 or higher and signing in with your account.
ChatGPT Plus subscribers will have access to GPT-4 features through the new app, OpenAI says, and will also get early access to new features and faster responsiveness. You already know that the chatbot has a subscription payment option for $19.90 per month.

It is clear that the ability to access ChatGPT directly from a mobile phone, without a search engine or web browser, is a leap forward, can change the way people use their phones. The arrival of the app comes just days after Google removed the waiting list for its own AI chatbot, Bard. And it is because Google plays the future of its search engine, that is, the same company.

Are you worried about the enormous progress of these AI models and the potential for malicious use?

You are not alone. It should be recalled that a group of 1,000 people, including scientists, engineers, intellectuals, businessmen, politicians and big names in the world of technology, signed an open letter in March asking for suspension for six months development of the largest artificial intelligence projects before “a profound risk to society and humanity” which may arise without proper control and management.

With the launch of ChatGPT for iOS and an Android version in a few weeks, the phenomenon is already unstoppable. Here is “AI ethics” It has already faded into the background and you only think about the business it can produce. And it’s a lot. Of course, they are trying to get as many users as possible, because the natural language processing model is still in the “learning” phase, and each interaction contributes to the improvement of the neural networks they work on.