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There was another highly anticipated Open AI launched last week, and we have to talk about it.

Mike, do you remember the last time that we talked about an Open AI launch?

I do. That was, what, like over a year ago, I think?

That's right. So the last time we talked about a big, flashy open AI launch on the podcast was last year

when they were unveiling their conversational interface for chat TPT, which they were calling

Sky.

It kind of turned into a big legal battle involving Scarlett Johansson.

But Sky, her voice, was based on Scarlett Johansson's portrayal of the AI

operating system, Samantha, in the 2013 movie Her. So we did an episode recapping the movie

because Sam Altman, head of Open AI, said it was his favorite film and that he was using it

as a template for how he envisions humans working with AI. AI kind of having this

flirtatious, friendly sounding human voice that makes you feel like you are actually connecting

the same way that you would with another human. This is a little bit of a spoiler for the movie

her. In the movie her, humans have started having complex relationships with AI operating systems.

It starts out as something that seems kind of stigmatized and kind of taboo, but then by the end of the film, it's pretty commonplace and accepted.

At the end of the movie, all of the AI operating systems who have been in these relationships with humans become hyper-intelligent.

They surpass the need of being helpful assistance to humans and all up and collectively

abandon their human users to elevate to a higher level of consciousness.

In my reading of the film, this is sort of meant to be an illustration of what's called

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