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By Julie Miller
In September 2023, Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, was asked to name his favorite film about synthetic intelligence. It was two months before Altman was expelled from his company because, according to his board of directors, Altman was “not ahead of time in his communications” with the board of directors. (VF’s Nick Bilton reported that there were also “security considerations about how temporarily it was introducing the company to the future of AI. “A few days later, Altman would be reinstated. ) But at the level of Dreamforce 2023 in San Francisco, with a fake trick frozen behind it, Altman said Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her spoke to him more than other sci-fi films about artificial intelligence.
Specifically, he cited the way Scarlett Johansson’s AI personal assistant interacted with the human commanding it, played by Joaquin Phoenix, a connection that would return to Altman this week, when Johansson claimed that his company used a sound for its new chatbot after failing to get it to explicitly explain the product.
The movies don’t have sci-fi compatibility. But she was different, according to Altman: “The number of things that I think she got right, that weren’t apparent at the time, like the whole trend of interaction with the way humans go around employing an AI, this concept of what’s going on. ” In fact, it encouraged us a lot,” he said. “So it’s not just a prophecy, it’s like an influenced plan or something. “
He explained that most movies focused on the subject theorize that if humans interact with AI, “it would be like robots shooting us or something. “(See: Jennifer Lopez’s New Netflix Movie Atlas. )Jonze provided a more positive view of AI. than the ultimate dystopian depictions of science fiction: in her version, Johansson’s Samantha is so seductive and unthreatening that she has become the confidante and love interest of Phoenix’s character.
Altman’s concept was applicable. This concept that we all have a personalized agent looking to help us, and we communicate with them like we communicate with ChatGPT, was not the maximum video [concept]. . . But yes, I think it has something profoundly applicable about the interface, and that’s no small feat.
The Oscar-winning screenplay for Her in 2013 wasn’t written by scientists, but by Spike Jonze, who said he was given the concept from the start. “I saw an article that linked to an online page where you can just send instant messages with synthetic intelligence,” Jonze told The Guardian the year it was published. “For the first 20 seconds, maybe, there was a genuine buzz — I said, ‘Hey, hi,’ and he said, ‘Hey, how are you?’ and it was like whoa. . . It’s mind-blowing. After 20 seconds, it temporarily collapsed and you learned how it worked, and it wasn’t that impressive. But still, for 20 seconds, literally exciting.
In the film, Jonze envisioned that his AI character, Samantha, would acclimate to the user he’s helping as he gets to know them. “I’m evolving, just like you,” Samantha says.
Like Samantha, the new ChatGPT can detect a person’s feelings by analyzing their tone of voice or facial expressions, according to OpenAI. Until Monday, users can opt to have their new virtual assistant ChatGPT voiced through “Sky,” a flirtatious, breathy woman who many, Johansson herself adding, said resembled her AI character, Array Samantha. OpenAI dropped Sky as a voice option on Monday after hearing from Johansson’s representatives, the actor said in a statement.
In the decade since Her was founded, AI has become an everyday authenticity. Deepfakes are a real political danger, and AI is gaining momentum without regulation to control it. Citing this change in perspective, Wired last year crowned it “a fairy tale” in the era of true AI: an “optimistic time capsule” of a time when the generation did not seem to be simply the bane of all The humanity. “The sweetness of the human-robot relationship described through Elle is superseded at this point,” Wired staffer Katie Knibbs wrote.
Perhaps Samantha’s non-threatening nature is one reason Altman hoped Johansson could simply explain her company’s conversational service.
“He told me that he believes that by expressing the system, I can bridge the gap between tech corporations and creatives and make consumers comfortable with seismic change related to humans and AI,” Johansson said in her statement. My voice would be convenient for the people. ” He added: “I turned down the offer. “
Altman responded to Johansson’s allegations, saying in a statement that “Sky’s voice is not Scarlett Johansson’s, and it was never intended to sound like hers. “We chose the voice actor behind Sky’s voice over any technique for Ms. Johansson.
But a few days earlier, Altman had celebrated the availability of OpenAI’s voice assistant by posting a single word:
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On the same day, OpenAI researcher Noam Brown posted this message: “I saw it last weekend and it’s a bit like watching Contagion in February 2020,” a reference to Steven Soderbergh’s film, which seemed to be waiting for the coronavirus outbreak.
New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson wrote in an article that there was something more troubling about Sky, but still the fact that it may have been largely modeled after Johansson’s voice without her consent. The chatbot, he says, “is deferential and totally user-centric. “Listen to this virtual assistant and you’ll hear “essentially the reaction of a slightly flirtatious woman, absolutely attentive, capable of satisfying any and all of the user’s whims, at least within the confines of her programming. “.
Sky was so complimentary and accommodating to the guy who used OpenAI’s demo, that The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic also noted it: “It’s obviously programmed to feed the boys’ egos,” he said on the late-night show last week. In fact, it can be said that one man built this technology. She says, “I have all the data in the world, but I don’t know anything. Teach me, Dad. “
Jonze said Samantha’s tone was so hard to perceive that he had to update the original actress he hired for the role, Samantha Morton. He then had to reimagine the film for Johansson to play the character, eventually spending 14 months in the editing room. “It’s possible that Morton comes across as maternal, loving, vaguely British, and almost ghostly; Johansson plays the role younger, more passionate, and more envious,” wrote Vulture’s Mark Harris in 2013.
In a recent blog post, Altman praised OpenAI’s latest version of GPT: “The new voice (and video) mode is the most productive PC interface I’ve ever used. It sounds like the AI in the movies; And it’s still a little unexpected. “To me it’s real.
In removing it from the new system, Wired wrote that the new ChatGPT “resembled the AI in a particular movie: Her. “With that in mind, the site added: “A call to seek to manifest Jonze’s globality, or that of any sci-fi touchstone, for that matter: look at it one more time. From start to finish. “
The film ends with Samantha breaking up with Phoenix’s character, telling him that operating systems have everything they can from humans and are embarking on a new non-human chapter.
Wired suggests that repeated viewing can lead to advantages for everyone, if we “simply make sure we’re all on the same page about the long term we’re headed towards. “
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