The new ChatGPT has a lot more personality (but only a little more brains)

Realtime audio and image understanding dramatically improves voice chat.

Last December, Google got in trouble for posting a misleading video that suggested its Gemini chatbot could talk and react to images in real time. Shot from overhead, the video showed a pair of hands drawing various sketches. A human voice would ask questions about the images and then another voice—Gemini, supposedly—would respond with descriptions of t…