Scarlett Johansson attends the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 9, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California.
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OpenAI announced that it will withdraw the voice named “Sky” from ChatGPT, which caused controversy because the voice is similar to the voice of actress Scarlett Johansson in the artificial intelligence movie “Her”.
“We’ve heard questions about how we select sounds in ChatGPT, especially Sky,” Microsoft-Supported companies publish on X.
The 2013 science fiction film Her tells the story of a man who falls in love with an artificial intelligence system named Samantha (voiced by Johnson).
A week ago, OpenAI launched a series of ChatGPT audio voices, its viral chatbot, a new AI model called GPT-4o, and a desktop version of ChatGPT.
Users who watched the live demonstration of ChatGPT’s audio feature immediately began posting on social media that “Sky’s” voice sounded like Johnson in the movie.CEO of Open Artificial Intelligence Sam Altman It seems that a post on X referenced the movie and simply wrote “her”.
In Sunday’s blog post, OpenAI wrote The chatbot’s five voices – Breeze, Cove, Ember, Juniper and Sky – were chosen through a five-month casting and recording process. According to the company, casting professionals received approximately 400 submissions from voice and screen actors and whittled that number down to 14 submissions. The internal team then selected the final five.
“Sky’s voice is not a copycat of Scarlett Johansson, but rather belongs to another professional actress using her own natural speaking voice,” the company wrote. “To protect their privacy, we cannot reveal the identities of our voice actors. name.”
OpenAI Project Test voice mode According to a recent blog post, paying subscribers will have early access to ChatGPT Plus in the coming weeks, and new voices are also planned to be added. OpenAI also said that the new model can “respond to the user’s audio prompts in just 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds, which is similar to human reaction time in a conversation.”
The company was founded in 2015 and has been valued by investors at more than $80 billion. With huge sums spent on processors and infrastructure to build and train models, the company is under pressure to lead the market in generating artificial intelligence while looking for ways to make money.
OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are leading the generative AI gold rush, with companies in nearly every industry racing to add AI-powered chatbots and agents to avoid being left behind by competitors. Earlier this month, OpenAI rival Anthropic announced its first enterprise product and free iPhone app.
According to PitchBook data, investment in nearly 700 generative AI deals reached a record $29.1 billion in 2023, an increase of more than 260% from the previous year.market forecast Up to $1 trillion Income over ten years.
In a live demonstration last week, members of the OpenAI team demonstrated ChatGPT’s messaging capabilities. For example, a chatbot was asked to help calm someone down before a public presentation.
OpenAI researcher Mark Chen demonstrated the model’s ability to tell a bedtime story and asked it to change the tone to make it more dramatic or robotic. He even asked it to sing the story. The team also asked it to analyze a user’s facial expressions to comment on the emotions the person may be experiencing.
“Hey, what’s up? How can I cheer you up today?” ChatGPT’s audio mode says when a user greets someone.
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