How crazy it is that only a month after my post on the eerie life-like sound of Edge's virtual voice, OpenAI released this new virtual assistant that sounds EXACTLY like the sensual, flirty voice from the movie Her!
I don't like where the future is going. People are going to start talking to AI thinking they are having a conversation with a real person.
It reminds me of a tweet/meme I saw a while ago about cautionary tales. Let's see if I can find it again.

Yep, here it is:

Yet now I'm thinking: what if the voice is not flirty at all? Maybe it's just our male brains that are wired to perceive it as such? That would scare me too — for different reasons, but still...