I found an amazing new use for ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode
OpenAI rolled out Advanced Voice Mode to US and international users several weeks ago, but I was left out of this big ChatGPT (GPT-4o) upgrade because the European Union region wasn’t covered. Fast-forward to last week, and OpenAI quietly rolled out Advanced Voice Mode support to ChatGPT Plus users in the EU, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. I haven’t noticed the upgrade in the desktop app, but I saw it late on Friday when I opened ChatGPT on my iPhone 16 Plus to retrieve an older chat about things to do while I was visiting Venice, Italy. Advanced Voice Mode was...
Orion, the big GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, might roll out in December
OpenAI has dropped a couple of key ChatGPT upgrades so far this year, but neither one was the big GPT-5 upgrade we’re all waiting for. First, we got GPT-4o in May 2024 with advanced multimodal support, including Advanced Voice Mode. Then more recently, we got o1 (in preview) with more advanced reasoning capabilities. The names make little sense, and they could be anything, really. But it’s certainly clear that OpenAI went out of its way to avoid calling either one GPT-5. That’s understandable, considering the history of that unofficial product name. Some associated GPT-5 with AGI, the more advanced version of AI...