The information: OpenAI has launched two new methods to work together with its flagship giant language mannequin in a significant replace. You’ll be able to have a spoken dialog with the chatbot as in case you had been making a name, and it’s additionally capable of reply questions on photos.

The way it works: The flexibility to speak to ChatGPT attracts on two separate fashions. Whisper, OpenAI’s current speech-to-text mannequin, converts what you say into textual content, which is then fed to the chatbot. And a brand new text-to-speech mannequin converts ChatGPT’s responses into spoken phrases.

Why it issues: This seize bag of updates reveals simply how briskly OpenAI is spinning its experimental fashions into fascinating merchandise. OpenAI has spent a lot of the time since its shock hit with ChatGPT final November sprucing its expertise and promoting it to each personal shoppers and industrial companions—together with Spotify. Learn the total story.

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These scientists dwell like astronauts with out leaving Earth

For round 25 years, individuals have performed out what existence could be like on, or en path to, one other world by learning the physiology and psychology of individuals residing in Antarctica and different distant outposts.

The world over, round 20 “analog” house amenities host individuals who volunteer to be examine topics, isolating themselves for weeks or months in polar stations, desert outposts, and even sealed habitats inside NASA facilities.