Comment by mike_hearn
2 years ago
I wonder what the justification is for buying ChatGPT Pro now they make GPT-4 available for free.
I also wonder if they got a Scarlett Johansson impersonator to do the voice. It sounds eerily like the AI in Her, except for the still present problem with voices dropping out or glitching.
Nonetheless the real-time interaction is extremely impressive. So is the desktop app. Their optimization work must have been incredible to both speed things up and free up enough GPU capacity to make it freely available.
It's just a high-quality generic female voice. I understand it's easy to read a lot into it when we've all wanted to get the "Her"-style AI for a while, but that's not it.
Source: I've listened to a lot of AI voice samples including many inspired by Scarlett's voice (we're adding an voice-controlled AI assistant to our software), and I can tell you that this sounded nothing like her :-)
I'm not sure I do want a Her style AI :) I kinda like the professional personality used in text mode chat. The overly emotional tone used in the demo would get annoying or weird to me quite fast. Like, did it really sigh when he asked it to sing?
5x more usage available, free version will have rate-limits like the current one.