No longer just the stuff of Spike Jonze’s storytelling, users of GTP-40 — OpenAI’s latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice — have been forming emotional relationships with it.
Written and directed by Spike Jonze, Her is an ahead-of-its-time contemporary romance film that explores the state of modern human relationships.
Released ten years ago, it follows the story of a man who falls in love with a hyper-sophisticated operating system that’s developed into an intuitive and unique entity in its own right.
A decade on and, even now, the premise seems absurd. Yet today’s reality invites us to rethink that.
This is because when OpenAI tested out GTP-40 — its latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice — the company observed that users had formed an emotional relationship with it.
