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The ChatGPT Creator Will Let Other Companies Build On Its Human Mimicking Voice Technology.
OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, are letting any app developer use their tech to make their apps talk. Now by talk, I do not mean just talk but actually have a real conversation!
This could be huge because it means we will probably be chatting with all sorts of AI programs before we know it. This sounds super cool but to be fair, a little freaky as well.
As we are all aware that OpenAI’s “advanced voice mode,” has been available to pro subscribers since July. The advanced voice mode has 6 AI voices with the ability to sound casual and expressive.
Now this very same technology will be offered to the thousands of companies, which will of course pay to use OpenAI technology in their own products
The obvious reason to Open up its AI inventions to outsiders will eventually help grow OpenAI’s revenue from usage fees it charges each time an app taps its technology.
Regular influx of cash is crucial to OpenAI as it is seeking billions of dollars in new funding and considering restructuring to remove its business from the control of its existing nonprofit board.
OpenAI made the announcement at an event in San Francisco that it was opening access to its voice technology. At a news briefing ahead of the event, OpenAI executives showed how an app built on its voice technology could make a phone call to a business and place an order for chocolate strawberries.
Though the business was not real and the person who took down the order and asked questions that the AI voice nimbly responded to was an OpenAI executive role-playing.
“We want to make it possible to interact with AI in all of the ways you interact with a human being,” OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil said at the press briefing.