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Talking to ChatGPT for the first time is a surreal experience

Listen to our first audio demo with OpenAI’s new natural voice chat features.

Regardless of how self-aware that information-processing engine is or is not, it's easy to envision people forming an intense parasocial relationship with the smooth voices at the other end of OpenAI's servers. ChatGPT: Well, for starters, I don't have personal experiences or emotions, so my responses are based on patterns and information in the data I've been trained on. KO: Do you worry that people might start to form parasocial relationships with ChatGPT or other AIs once they can chat with them with their own voice?

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