Companies such as OpenAI and Meta push ahead, but it is clear that biggest changes are yet to come
This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood’s idea of it from a decade ago.
“It feels like AI from the movies,” wrote the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, of his latest system, an impressive virtual assistant. To underline his point he posted a single word on X – “her” – referring to the 2013 film starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a futuristic version of Siri or Alexa, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
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