ChatGPT can do many things: It can provide you with a summary of complex topics, brainstorm film ideas with you and even write code for you in different programming languages. But one thing the AI chatbot, developed by OpenAI, couldn’t do for a long time was access and read photos, documents and other files.
The AI chatbot roster — as with other generative AI tools — is expansive and growing, with Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude.ai, Perplexity, Dall-E, Midjourney and others on the list. They’re collectively poised to transform how you work, how you get information and how companies do business. But it all started with ChatGPT.
If you wanted ChatGPT to analyze information from something like a PDF or an Excel spreadsheet, you were once out of luck. You’d have to type the information from the document into the chat thread without uploading anything.
But that’s no longer the…
