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ChatGPT fills its answers with buttons and charts in GPT-6, including for free users
OpenAI launches Intelligent UI: ChatGPT will sometimes answer with diagrams, calculators and maps you can tap. It arrives with GPT-6 for all users, though not every answer will include visuals.
The essentials
3 confirmed facts · 1 according to the source · 2 open questions
- OpenAI launches Intelligent UI in ChatGPT, with GPT-6: answers that combine text with diagrams, charts, forms and buttons you can tap.134
- It arrives on October 7 for paying users and on October 8 for users on the free and Go plans, according to TechCrunch and WIRED.23
- Not every answer will include visual elements, and users can ask ChatGPT to generate fewer of them.23
- According to the sourceWIRED notes that Google already did something similar in its search engine this year, under the name "generative UI."2
Why it matters
ChatGPT is no longer just a text chat. It is starting to build small, custom tools for each question. If it works as it does in the demos, explaining something complex or comparing options will be easier than reading a long block of text. This suggests that Google and OpenAI are both moving toward more visual answers, although it is still too early to know how much people will use them.
If you use ChatGPT, you will see more charts and buttons in some answers. If you prefer text only, you can ask it to use fewer visual elements.
The details
According to WIRED, which tested the feature before launch, ChatGPT created a diagram of a slug with a button for each body part, a rent calculator for San Francisco with sliders, and an airplane seat map where you could tap each seat.2 According to The Verge, OpenAI says it trained GPT-6 to decide when a visual element is useful and how to format it.4
Aarush Selvan, a product lead at OpenAI, told TechCrunch that ChatGPT has mostly been text and that the company wants to help people do things like plan a trip or learn something.3 He told WIRED that a design team studied when a chart helps and when it gets in the way.2
What we don't know
- How it works in everyday use: the sources are based on OpenAI demos and a quick test by WIRED.
- Whether there are differences or limits between the paid plans and the free plan.
Sources
- 1GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
- 2The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell
- 3ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface
- 4ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons
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