A new version of ChatGPT will be able to call a restaurant and book a reservation over the phone next year, an expert has said.
ChatGPT Five is expected to launch in 2024 by OpenAI, the Silicon Valley company that made the large language model powered by AI, and will bring yet more firsts.
The technology took the world by storm in late 2022 when ChatGPT-3.5 was released as a chatbot and has gone from strength to strength over the last 12 months.
Ethical issues have been widely debated and rivals, including Google’s Bard, have also been launched.
Aidan Meller, director of the Ai-Da Robot Project described 2024 as a very big year for AI with the fifth version of ChatGPT set to be released.
The update will be able to make actions rather than just act as a text-based editor. The fourth version was launched in Spring 2023 and had improved memory and also enabled data-to-text functions as well as fixing some of the early bugs.
The release of ChatGPT Five is expected to broaden the reach of AI even further and have more day-to-day applications.
Mr Meller said: You could say to your phone ‘Can you book me the restaurant on Monday at seven?’ and ChatGPT Five will be able to phone up the restaurant, speak to them audibly, say ‘Hi, I’m trying to get an appointment for seven’ and book it for you, and then come back to you and say ‘we’ve now done that’.
Can you imagine how that’s going to be useful in business?
Mr Meller also said the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) will create a seismic change in all industries within four years.
Known as the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, Ai-Da can create drawings, performance art and collaborative paintings and sculptures.
The robot will help Oxford University professor Mike Wooldridge to deliver the Royal Institution’s annual Christmas lectures on the BBC this week.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, ahead of Ai-Da’s speech this week, Mr Meller said: AI is incredibly powerful – it’s going to transform society as we know it, and I think we’re really only at the very beginning.
We have these explosions of development, things like ChatGPT that people know about, but in actual fact as more and more people get to grips with it, we think that by 2026 or 2027, there’s going to be a seismic change as AI is in all industries.
Mr Meller said the medium of art allows scientists to discuss and study issues around AI without the risk of any threat to humans because it is benign.
Talking about the Royal Institution lectures, he said: I think AI is going to enable us to have very fake situations, and we’re not going to know whether they’re fake or not – that is where lies the problem.
We don’t know what we’re dealing with, and we hope that these lectures by the Royal Institution are going to be able to really open that topic up.
Remember we’ve got the elections next year, very worrying times for things that are fake and not fake, so in actual fact it is a very serious matter.
