ChatGPT is coming to phones. No, not smartphones — landlines. Call 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-CHATGPT), and OpenAI’s AI-powered assistant will respond as of Wednesday afternoon. “[Our mission at] OpenAI is to make artificial general intelligence beneficial to all of humanity, and part of that is making it as accessible as possible to as many people as we can,” OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil said during a livestream. “Today, we’re taking the next step and bringing ChatGPT to your telephone.” The experience is more or less identical to Advanced Voice Mode, OpenAI’s real-time conversational feature for ChatGPT — minus the multimodality. ChatGPT responds to the questions users ask over the phone and can handle tasks such as translating a sentence into a different language.
