Nothing earbuds and phones are about to let you talk to ChatGPT for instant AI answers

Now you can talk to Nothing, as well as listen to it

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Nothing plans to bring the AIchatbot,ChatGPTto itsbest wireless earbudsandbest phones, enabling you to talk to your device and get conversational answers in return. The feature will also allow you to use your Nothing phone or Nothing earbuds to summon the chatbot to answer questions or perform tasks.

The feature will be gradually rolled out via free software updates from today, April 18. The first Nothing devices to get ChatGPT smarts are its phones, starting with theNothing Phone (2)followed by theNothing Phone (1)andNothing Phone (2a), in the next few weeks. It’s expected to launch on theNothing EarandNothing Ear (a)earbuds too “soon”.

Is it good to talk to ChatGPT?

ChatGPTis the most popular consumer AI tool in the world right now, and while Nothing isn’t the first firm to bring it to consumer products – theVolumio Integro music streamerused ChatGPT from its launch last summer – it’s fair to say that Nothing has a much higher profile and larger user base.

It’s also beaten many rivals to the punch.Googleis expected to bring its own chatbot, Gemini, toGoogle Assistant-optimized phonesand headphones too. Even OpenAI itself – creator of ChatGPT, is believed to be working with former Apple design guru Jonathan Ive,to make its own AI hardware.

We first tried the voice version of ChatGPT last year, and found that it was both more chatty and more knowledgeable than the likes ofApple’s Siri. It’s not as deeply integrated as Apple’s assistant, but it’s not as frustratingly limited either: I use Siri multiple times daily and I’m often frustrated by its often bone-headed responses.

You don’t have to use ChatGPT as your default voice assistant on your Nothing device if you don’t want to, but it should be an interesting feature to experiment with. So far, our various personal digital assistants have fallen some way short of delivering the kinds of friction-free computing we’d like them to, and of course there are obvious benefits, in terms of accessibility, for people who can’t or don’t want to use screen-based interfaces.

I’m not sure I’d ever ask ChatGPT for a bedtime story, which is one ofOpenAI’s suggestions, but I’d definitely like an assistant that’s better at understanding more complex spoken commands, without just telling me to open my web browser. What’s more, this looks like it’s just the beginning. “By integrating ChatGPT with Nothing earbuds, including the new Nothing Ear and Ear (a), and with Nothing OS, we’ve taken our first steps towards change, and there’s more to come,” Nothing CEO Carl Pei says.

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.

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