How Visual ChatGPT Adds Image Interaction to ChatGPT – A Deep Dive
Microsoft's open‑source Visual ChatGPT extends ChatGPT with image send/receive capabilities, explains its multimodal architecture, demo scenarios, used visual models, and points to the arXiv paper, highlighting its rapid popularity growth on GitHub.
Overview
Microsoft recently open‑sourced Visual ChatGPT, a multimodal extension of ChatGPT that can send and receive images during a conversation.
Why it matters
While ChatGPT excels at text, Visual ChatGPT adds "custom emoji"‑like image capabilities, expanding its fun and practical applications.
Architecture
ChatGPT (or any LLM) acts as a general interface, handling user interaction and delegating visual tasks to specialized foundation models (VFM). The repository provides diagrams of the system architecture.
Demo scenarios
The demo showcases three interaction types: Visual ChatGPT receiving an image from the user, modifying an image based on textual instructions and sending it back, and recognizing an image to answer questions. The system decides whether to invoke a Visual Foundation Model for each request.
Image models and resource usage
The repository lists the visual models used by Visual ChatGPT and their GPU memory consumption.
Further reading
For detailed technical information, read the arXiv paper "Visual ChatGPT" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04671). As of March 16, the project has attracted over 21.9 K stars on GitHub.
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