Not everyone finds the similarity so eerie-to my ear, it lacks her distinctive smoky rasp-but at the very least, the new AI does appear to imitate the playful lilts and cadences that Johansson used while playing Samantha, the digital assistant in the 2013 film Her. That's depressing-and not only because OpenAI may have run roughshod over Johansson's wishes, but because it has made such an unimaginative choice.
The OpenAI demo was otherwise impressive. Its new voice assistant answered questions just milliseconds after they were asked. It fluidly translated a conversation between Italian and English. It was capable of repartee.
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