{"id":501314,"date":"2023-07-24T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=501314"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:15:16","slug":"openai-rolling-out-chatgpt-for-android-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/501314-openai-rolling-out-chatgpt-for-android-users.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI rolling out ChatGPT for Android users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenAI\/status\/1682480558545461249?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that ChatGPT is rolling out to Android users this week, over two months after the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot launched on iOS.<\/p>\n<p>Android users can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.openai.chatgpt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-register<\/a><\/strong> for the app on the Google Play Store, and while the app is free, pre-registration will guarantee that it will be installed on your as it goes live.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Announcing ChatGPT for Android! The app will be rolling out to users next week, and you can pre-order in the Google Play Store starting today,&#8221; OpenAI said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Google Play Store listing emphasises that the app is free and will sync your history across your devices and keep up to date with OpenAI&#8217;s latest model improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Android users can access ChatGPT through a browser or Microsoft&#8217;s ChatGPT-4-powered Bing app. However, an independent app will likely be beneficial for users.<\/p>\n<p>The app proved popular for iOS users. TechCrunch <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/25\/chatgpts-new-app-comes-out-of-the-gate-hot-tops-half-a-million-installs-in-first-6-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that it had accumulated over half a million downloads within six days of its App Store launch.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT is powered by OpenAI&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/483927-openai-launches-gpt-4.html\">GPT-4 large language model<\/a><\/strong>, and researchers have raised concerns over a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/500913-chatgpt-is-becoming-alarmingly-dumber-researchers.html\">deterioration in its response to prompts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A team of three researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley measured the qualitative aspects of GPT-4 and its predecessor, GPT-3.5, across four main categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solving maths problems<\/li>\n<li>Generating code<\/li>\n<li>Answering sensitive questions<\/li>\n<li>Visual reasoning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The team only noticed improvements in the chatbot&#8217;s visual reasoning, with GPT-4 showing noticeable declines in the other three categories.<\/p>\n<p>One of the researchers \u2014 Matei Zaharia \u2014 said it was &#8220;very hard&#8221; to determine the cause of the deterioration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could definitely be that RLHF [reinforcement learning from human feedback] and fine-tuning are hitting a wall, but might also be bugs. Definitely seems tricky to manage quality,&#8221; Zaharia said.<\/p>\n<p>The team plans on running a longer follow-up study, and Zaharia asked his Twitter followers for feedback on which questions they should use to measure GPT&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/501051-big-ai-companies-will-pledge-safeguards-for-responsible-development.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Big AI companies will pledge safeguards for responsible development<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android users can pre-register for the ChatGPT app to ensure that it is installed as it goes live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":475849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,83065,9557,84925,88088],"class_list":["post-501314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-chatgpt","tag-google-play-store","tag-gpt-4","tag-matei-zaharia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501384,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501314\/revisions\/501384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}