Is the revolution in AI-fueled virtual companions coming soon?

Or is it already here?

Is pro-sports gambling, compromising sports and

should Christians celebrate what is called Fidelity Month

and a New York Times story of a woman denied purchase of a home

because she was black. These are the stories we'll discuss today and we will also address some of your questions. I'm your host Sean McDow.

I'm your co-host Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblically weekly cultural update brought to you by Towell School of Theology

Biola University.

Now Scott, this first story we're going to talk about

came to me kind of at the last minute.

It's something we've discussed, but our viewers need to realize

that some radical changes may be coming this week in terms of AI-fueled

virtual companions. So I follow this weekly update called New World Same Humans.

It's a newsletter on trends and technology by David Madden. And he says this week there's fresh news that we're close to a mega

partnership between open AI and Apple. According to Bloomberg, who were the first

to break the story last month, the partnership

will be announced this week at Apple's Worldwide Development Conference, this week coming up.

He says, if the demonstrations are anything to go by users can hold a

fluent and natural conversation with the new version of gPT for. This model will also

be able to understand video input in real time, meaning it can, for example, take a look at the room you're sitting in through your camera and use that as context against which it will frame its responses.

In other words, it looks as though you're in a science

lab. What are we working on? Now, Open AI CEO Sam Altman sent out a tweet a few weeks ago,

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