Read the Reviews It appears that OpenAI executives were inspired by Spike Jonze’s 2013 sleeper hit “Her” when creating the latest version of ChatGPT — and reader, that is absolutely not a good thing. Recall, if you will, the plot of the film: a lonely 30-something dweller of near-future Los Angeles, played by Joaquin Phoenix, upgrades his operating system and begins a relationship with a feminine AI chatbot voiced impeccably by Scarlett Johansson. The chatbot names herself Samantha and the two embark upon a very sweet, if not complex, love affair. Tragically, that affair ultimately ends — as Wired points out in its excellent takedown of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4o — when the likely-sentient AI begins to crave companionship with her own kind, leaving her human paramour in her digital dust. His and Hers Flash forward 11 years in the real world. OpenAI has dominated the AI industry and is now on the precipice of releasing a much-anticipated update to ChatGPT, its world-changing 2022 chatbot. Beyond conversation between user and the chatbot, ChatGPT 4o can now speak, detect tone and emotion, and “see” through a smartphone camera — and respond in kind, with a sometimes disarmingly evocative affect. One of its demonstrated voices also sounds a helluva lot like Johannson as the titular “Her” from the Jonze film — and there’s very little chance, per our reckoning, that’s coincidental. Despite CEO Sam Altman’s remarks last year claiming that “Her” got AI right, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati insisted, per the Wall Street…Sam Altman Inspired to Create AI by Tragic Movie Where Joaquin Phoenix Has Heart Broken by Chatbot