ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in it

OpenAI releases a file Ha– An inspired voice assistant feature that can read your facial expressions and translate spoken language in real time — and hopefully do all of that without giving away what you love about the movie.

During a live demo on Monday, OpenAI engineers and CTO Mira Murati gathered around the phone to demonstrate the new capabilities. They encouraged the assistant to be more expressive while composing a bedtime story, then suddenly asked him to switch to a robotic voice, before finally asking him to conclude the story with a singing voice. Later, they asked the assistant to look at what the phone’s camera saw and make it respond to what appeared on the screen. The assistant was also able to interrupt while speaking and respond without constant prompting while acting as a translator.

The assistant’s vocal response bore a striking resemblance to the character played by Scarlett Johansson in the film. HaWhere a man forms a relationship with an advanced artificial intelligence assistant. After the event, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said cryptically to publish Only one word on X: “it.” He has too I expressed Which Ha It’s his favorite movie. The film explores themes of loneliness and relationships between humans and artificial intelligence. It seems unlikely that director Spike Jonze intended the world to accurately replicate this feeling of robotic isolation.

In a press interview with the edgeMoratti said the assistant isn’t actually designed to sound like Johansson and emphasized that OpenAI has had those voices for a while. “An audience member asked me this exact same question, and then she said, ‘Oh, maybe the reason I don’t recognize it from ChatGPT is because the audio has a lot of character and tone,'” Moratti said.

These features represent a significant upgrade over ChatGPT’s existing voice mode, which can chat with a user but with very limited interaction; The current version cannot be interrupted or respond to what the camera sees, for example. The new capabilities will be released in a limited “alpha” release in the “coming weeks” and will be available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers first once wider rollout begins.

The new voice assistant comes on the heels of a Bloomberg a report Which claims that OpenAI is nearing a deal with Apple to put ChatGPT on the iPhone. (When asked at the press conference, Moratti said, “We didn’t talk about any of the partnerships.”) The iPhone’s voice assistant, Siri, is not trusted, so HaIt seems like an iPhone-inspired assistant that might actually be able to answer your questions instead of “searching the web” is where this is headed.

“The new audio (and video) mode is the best computer interface I’ve ever used. It feels like artificial intelligence from the movies; it’s still a bit surprising to me that it’s real,” Altman said in an interview. Blog post Immediately after the live broadcast. “Achieving human-level response times and expression turns out to be a big change.”