OpenAI’s new hotline: Chat with ChatGPT anytime, anywhere.

For January 10th OpenAIFor its “12 Days of Shipmas” event, the company decided to take a traditional approach. With the release of phone numbers for people to call and talk with ChatGPT.

US users can call 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478) on any device that can make calls. This includes rotary phones, as OpenAI demonstrated in a live stream. If you have an international number You can send ChatGPT messages using WhatsApp.

It might seem strange that ChatGPT, which has a web version, mobile apps on iOS and Android, and desktop applications for MacOS and Windows, would require a phone number to ask ChatGPT questions, but OpenAI explains that this feature is for people. that do not have a consistent data connection

Deploy AI wherever possible.

OpenAI says this feature ultimately helps make ChatGPT more accessible. Calls to phone numbers are usually free and accessible to people who don’t have unlimited data or aren’t near a Wi-Fi connection.

However, anyone who wants to call ChatGPT can do so for as little as 15 minutes a month.

This isn’t the first time a tech company has used calling or texting to grow its user base. In countries like the Philippines Facebook Offer a way for people to use SMS to Post on social media platform. This has proven beneficial in expanding Facebook’s reach in the Philippines, where the majority of people have mobile phones. Even if it doesn’t have to be a smartphone. Filipinos are now the largest users of social networks.

It’s not that ChatGPT is doing a disservice to its users. It is still one of the most used AI platforms. Although there is more competition in the market, OpenAI says its business offerings ChatGPT Enterprise, Team and Edu alone It had recorded more than 1 million users as of September. A month earlier, ChatGPT had reached 200 million users.

OpenAI offers ChatGPT for free but provides advanced models and other powerful features. Available to Plus, Teams, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu members.

“This is an experimental way of talking to ChatGPT, so availability and limits may change,” the company said. “For a richer experience with more tools, higher limit and more personalization Existing users should continue to use ChatGPT directly through their accounts.”

weakness

ChatGPT Calls Feel Like Using OpenAI Voice and Advanced Voice Models I called ChatGPT and asked for ideas on what to do during my stopover in Tokyo. As expected, it gave me some suggestions.

The difference is I don’t get my conversations read with ChatGPT if I use advanced audio mode. Everything we discuss is converted into a written chat that I can refer back to when logged into my account.

I also highly doubt any developer would call ChatGPT and ask to code anything.

But this feature is interesting and works well. Not bad for something that OpenAI developers created a few weeks ago for Hack Week.

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