Snap launches A.I. chatbot powered by OpenAI's GPT

Snap announced Monday it's rolling retired an OpenAI-powered chatbot named My AI to its Snapchat+ subscribers.

Snapchat+ was announced in June and costs $3.99 per month.

According to The Verge, the chatbot is based connected OpenAI ChatGPT technology, which besides underpins Microsoft's Bing AI. It tin urge acquisition ideas, play plans, oregon recipes, Snap said successful a press release. Users tin customize the sanction and chat inheritance of the "experimental feature."

In a motion to well-documented incidents with Bing's OpenAI-based chatbot, Snap warned successful a property merchandise that its My AI chatbot "can beryllium tricked into saying conscionable astir anything."

"Please beryllium alert of its galore deficiencies and atrocious successful advance!"

Snap laminitis and CEO Evan Spiegel discussed the transformative imaginable of AI exertion connected the company's fourth-quarter earnings call. Executives from different companies similar Nvidia and Meta person made akin pronouncements during caller net calls.

In an interrogation with the Verge, Spiegel was likewise sanguine. "The large thought is that successful summation to talking to our friends and household each day, we're going to speech to AI each day," helium said.

Snap's caller AI chatbot merchandise comes weeks aft AI-backed releases from Microsoft and Google, the second of which unveiled an internally-developed conversational AI merchandise called Bard.