ChatGPT is getting a lot more visual, with the launch of a new interface

ChatGPT is about to get a lot more visual, thanks to a new feature that OpenAI calls Intelligent UI. The new interface, which is being rolled out Wednesday with a new GPT-6 model, will integrate a significant amount of visuals into users’ conversations.

OpenAI says many of those visuals will be interactive. In other words, instead of just flat, cartoonish pictures, the chatbot will frequently include things like tappable buttons, a customized calculator for a specific task, interactive charts, editable graphs, and other elements the user can work with directly.

The big goal here, according to OpenAI is to make “learning complex topics easier.” It may also make ChatGPT friendlier and more accessible and help bring in a wider audience, though OpenAI didn’t say so directly.

In a call with journalists, OpenAI staff gave a brief demonstration of Intelligent UI’s capabilities, showing how the new chatbot can instantly whip up various diagrams and visuals that help users understand more abstract topics.

Aarush Selvan, a product manager at the company, said that while “ChatGPT has predominantly been a text-based interface,” the company really wants to help users “get things done — from everyday things like planning a recipe or a trip or even trying to learn something, adding that the most helpful answers aren’t just text.”