While it might feel like every week is a big news week in the world of AI, this week has been a particularly, well, big news week. First came word that Apple is nearing a deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT natively to the iPhone. And now, OpenAI itself has dropped yet another wildly impressive version of said generative model, and everyone's already comparing it to a certain movie from 2013.
Yep, it looks like Spike Jonez's 'Her' is finally (sort of) becoming a reality. GPT-4 Omni's (or GPT-4o) features new real-time audio features that make it "a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction". Which, for many, is conjuring an image of Joaquin Phoenix talking to Scarlett Johansson's disembodied voice through his phone and computer.
