Brace yourselves; ChatGPT can now actually chat with you.
On Monday, OpenAI, the company which brought you the generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, revealed the latest iteration of the bot, called ChatGPT 4o, which will have a new voice feature. The o stands for omni or “of all things” in English, and trust us, 4o can do it all.
4o can chat with you in five voices: Juniper, Sky, Breeze, Cove and Ember. Not only can it talk with you, but it can pick up subtle nuances in your voice to make the experience as natural for you as possible. It is also capable of understanding images, videos and audio. It’s also much faster. 🗣
Many have likened this new development to the plot of the 2013 movie Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Johansson stars as Samantha, a flirty, funny and intelligent AI that Phoenix’s Theodore falls in love with. Hopefully, none of you fall in love with the equally amusing ChatGPT4o. On Monday’s demonstrations, the bot even exhibited signs of being a bit of a jokester when it told an OpenAI employee that he was “not a vacuum cleaner” after he gave a heavy breath.
The idea of AI has been around for several decades, dating back to the early days of modern computing. But TV shows and movies have kind of turned AI into this scary, take-over-the-world technology. Who can forget movies like The Terminator and The Matrix, which feature scenes of human-like robots rising up against their creators? While these aren’t the most realistic depictions of AI, we don’t know what the future holds. Be nice to your future AI overlords, just in case!
Of course, like everything, there are dark sides to AI. Last year, a Belgian man committed suicide after an AI chatbot on an app called Chai encouraged him to “sacrifice himself” to stop climate change. Yikes!
Despite this, AI has the potential to save lives. For instance, in 2016 (yes, it goes that far back!), AI saved a woman’s life in Japan by correctly predicting her diagnosis, which had the doctors stumped until then!
We’re pretty excited to hear ChatGPT 4o speak… do you think we should let it read this Wrap for us?!
