Opinion: AI’s ‘Her’ era has arrived

The company’s new model, called GPT-4o (the o stands for ‘omni’) will let ChatGPT talk to users in a much more lifelike way – detecting emotions in their voices, analysing their facial expressions and changing its own tone and cadence depending on what a user wants. — AP

SAN FRANCISCO: A lifelike artificial intelligence with a smooth, alluring voice enchants and impresses its human users – flirting, telling jokes, fulfilling their desires and eventually winning them over.

I’m summarising the plot of the 2013 movie Her, in which a lonely introvert named Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is seduced by a virtual assistant named Samantha, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.