OpenAI, the company behind the wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, announced on Thursday the launch of an iOS app – ChatGPT’s first official mobile application – with an Android version due “soon”. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced via Twitter that the app is now available in the US and will be released around the world in the coming weeks.
Since launching last November as a free browser-based program, ChatGPT says it has amassed more than 100 million users who have found dozens of surprising (and concerning) ways to use it, from cheating with college essays And debugging code to developing video games and writing fan fiction. Since then, OpenAI has launched a premium subscription to the program, ChatGPT Plus, which offers priority access and responses generated using ChatGPT’s latest language model for $20 per month.
As Polygon’s Nicole Carpenter wrote last month, ChatGPT is currently the best-known example of a “large multimodal model” AI, considered groundbreaking for its ability to learn not only from its own database of information, but also from human feedback. While the app is certainly impressive, it’s worth noting the ongoing concerns about privacy while using ChatGPT and the app’s tendency to be authoritative provide fabricated information. Like any other machine, ChatGPT proves to be only as reliable as the people who interact with it.
The iOS app version of ChatGPT can be downloaded from the Apple iOS store.