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I Am Once Again Asking Our Tech Overlords to Watch the Whole Movie


OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has seemingly cited Her as an inspiration for ChatGPT’s conversational voice assistant update. Maybe don't!

It doesn’t even cut him off from the rest of society; AI partners are so normalized in Jonze’s imagined future that no one bats an eye when Samantha’s user, Theodore, takes it as his plus-one on a double-date. It’s not until Samantha leaves—in Her, AIs around the world disappear to some higher plane of existence, an outcome that would surely alarm OpenAI’s investors—that Theodore confronts his own messy, human relationships. Prior to WIRED he was the editor in chief of the tech and culture site Gizmodo and was a business reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper.

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