OpenAI updates ChatGPT with interactive graphics

OpenAI has announced Intelligent UI, a new ChatGPT feature that enables it to create interactive visual interfaces. Rolling out this week alongside GPT-6's wider release, Intelligent UI is intended to make the AI chatbot's responses more visual so they're easier for users to understand.

"We’ve trained GPT‑6 to compose responses using text, visuals and interactive elements, choosing how they fit together based on your question," OpenAI wrote in its announcement on Wednesday. "With Intelligent UI, responses can include graphics, tappable buttons, forms, charts, and interactive experiences you can use directly in your conversation."

Exactly what type of graphics ChatGPT will use will depend upon the prompts users provide. The AI chatbot will still provide text-only responses when that is the most suitable format to respond to input. However, OpenAI indicated that ChatGPT could now provide an interactive diagram of a bicycle to explain its design, or create a graph to explain GDP. Intelligent UI will also allow ChatGPT to create tools for tasks, such as generating a calculator to split a bill, or for projecting your future retirement savings.

To develop Intelligent UI, OpenAI built a collection of components its AI model could pull from when building interactive visual content. The model was then trained to use these components to generate responses suitable for different prompts.