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At the end of November, it'll be one year since Chatchy PT was first made public,

rapidly accelerating the artificial intelligence arms race. And a lot has changed over the course

of 10 months. In just the past few weeks, both OpenAI and Google have introduced big new features

to their AI chatbots. And Metta, Facebook's parent company, is jumping in the ring too with its

own public-facing chatbots. I mean, we learned about one of these news updates just minutes before

recording this episode of Tech Quickly, the version of Scientific American's science-quickly podcast

that keeps you updated on the lightning-fast advances in AI. I'm Sophie Bushwick, tech editor at

Scientific American. And I'm Lauren Leffer, tech reporting fellow.

So what are these new features that these AI models are getting? Let's start with multi-modality.

Public versions of both OpenAI's Chatchy PT and Google's Bard can now interpret and respond

to image and audio prompts, not just text. You can speak to the chatbots kind of like the

Siri feature on an iPhone and get an AI-generated audio reply back. You can also feed the bots pictures,

drawings, or diagrams, and ask for information about all those visuals and get a text response.

That is awesome. How can people get access to this? Right now, Google's version is free to use,

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