For this story to make sense you have to know about a movie that came out in 2013 called Her. The movie was essentially a science fiction romance about a guy played by Joaquin Phoenix who falls in love with an operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. Johansson never appears in the movie but her voice is a constant presence. She is the character referred to by the title of the film. Here’s the trailer for those who haven’t seen it.
That was a decade ago when talk about AI was mostly science fiction. But jump forward to last week and Open AI was rolling out a new version of its Chap GPT software. Sam Altman made a big deal about its ability to have natural conversation with several different voices including one called “Sky.”
Immediately, people noticed that Sky sounded an awful lot like Scarlett…
