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Though ChatGPT still has issues and many of its features are in experimental phases, the continued updates paint a clearer picture of the future digital travel assistant.

Travelers could have a robotic voice translator in their pocket with the next updates to ChatGPT. That was the most significant travel-related feature in a group of updates that OpenAI unveiled on Monday. 

The upgraded translation capabilities are part of the new flagship GPT-4o model for ChatGPT. OpenAI said the model is much faster than the previous version and is better at interacting with voice, photos, and video. 

A live demo of the translation capability showed two OpenAI employees speaking to ChatGPT as if it were a human translator.

OpenAI research lead Mark Chen told ChatGPT to function as