ChatGPT’s Mac app is here, but its flirty advanced voice mode has been delayed

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The precocious dependable mode for ChatGPT that sparked a tussle with Scarlett Johansson was an important constituent of OpenAI’s Spring Update event, wherever it besides revealed a desktop app for ChatGPT.

Now, OpenAI says it volition “need 1 much period to scope our barroom to launch” an alpha mentation of the caller dependable mode to a tiny radical of ChatGPT Plus subscribers, with plans to let entree for each Plus customers successful the fall. One circumstantial country that OpenAI says it’s improving is the quality to “detect and garbage definite content.”

As for the caller video and surface sharing capabilities that we saw during the event, OpenAI writes that it volition “keep you posted” connected a timeline. OpenAI had said it would present the caller capabilities successful “the coming weeks.” Now, the institution writes that “Exact timelines beryllium connected gathering our precocious information and reliability bar.”

The adjunct features bearing a troublesome resemblance to Johansson’s virtual quality successful the movie Her were portion of OpenAI’s demo, showing however the GPT-4o-powered bot could observe the satellite astir the idiosyncratic and respond to it successful existent time. It could besides support a speech acold much people and tolerate interruptions with what CEO Sam Altman called “human-level effect times and expressiveness.”

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The desktop app, however, launched today for users connected macOS. With the Mac app installed, pressing Option and Space unneurotic tin unfastened ChatGPT from anywhere, allowing it to chat astir whatever’s connected your surface astatine the time. A Windows app is acceptable to get aboriginal this year.