ChatGPT is now available for Android
The official ChatGPT application for Android is now available. OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and other AI products, released the application yesterday. It follows the official ChatGPT for iOS application, which OpenAI released back in May 2023.
Interested users may download the official ChatGPT application from Google's Play Store. The application runs on any Android 6.0 and up devices and is relatively light on permissions.
The download count of the app has reached 1 million downloads already. Interested users should note that the app requires an account and the verification of a phone number before access is granted. Virtual phone numbers should work, however. Good news is that the app does not feature advertisement at this stage.
Existing users have their history synced automatically across all devices that they use ChatGPT on while logged in to the same account.
The interface of the ChatGPT application is straightforward. It displays the message prompt at the bottom that you use to interact with the AI. Just type your message, question or otherwise, to get a reply from the AI.
The provided answers appear quickly and there is little delay. It almost feels like having a chat on WhatsApp, Telegram or any other messaging application.
The AI is based on ChatGPT 3.5 at the time according to the app itself. This limits the capabilities of the AI, as it is now aware of recent information (meaning approximately the past 2 years).
A tap on Menu and then Settings displays just a few options. There, users may change the color scheme from the default, system, to light or dark, the default language, which is set to autodetect, and to disable chat history & training under Data Controls.
Users may turn the feature off. Doing to disables the saving of history on the device, the syncing of the history, and use of the chats for training OpenAI models. Unsaved chats will be deleted automatically after 30 days, according to the setting. The settings page offers options to clear the history right away, export data and to delete the account.
The launch of the official ChatGPT application for Android may put many of the released copycat applications in place. Android users may use the new ChatGPT app on the go or at home. Right now, text access is available only. Future updates could introduce support for using images or other media in interactions.
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Android users who want to give it a try find the official ChatGPT application here on Google Play. Microsoft released Bing Chat with AI & GPT-4 for Android as well, which supports visual search already thanks to GPT-4 support.
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.