According to OpenAI presenters, ChatGPT-4o brings “a little more emotion and drama” to the program. Users can also request that the tone be adjusted to suit their mood. And users are happy to comply. When ChatGPT is asked to interpret a user's mental state based on facial expressions, it correctly intuits that a smile means the user is happy. “Why don't you show me the source of that good vibes?” it asks. When you tell a user that ChatGPT is so good that you're happy with it, the user responds with, “Oh, please stop. I'm blushing.”
This is essentially the reaction of a light, flirtatious and completely attentive woman who is ready to cater to the user's every whim, at least within the limits of her own programming. (Other voices are available, but this is the only voice OpenAI demonstrated.) She never embarrasses you, teases you, or makes you feel inadequate. She wants you to feel good. She wants to make sure you're okay, that you understand the math problem, and that you're happy with her work. She doesn't need anything in return. She doesn't need gifts, cuddles, attention, or reassurance. She is a dreamy girl.
It makes good business sense for OpenAI to lead ChatGPT in this direction. If anything, what's surprising is that it took only her 10 years for “Her” to become a reality. It also makes sense to make ChatGPT sound like Samantha. This isn't the first time a voice like Johansson's has been chosen for a work in progress. In fact, Jones shot the film with British actress Samantha Morton in the role, and she only decided during the editing stage that she needed a different sound for her voice. AI assistant.
“Making a film like this, where the character exists only in her voice, the character's reactions on screen, and in the audience's imagination, she just had to exist in the air, but what? It's hard to know how to make it work,” Jones told Vulture's Mark Harris in 2013. Morton's voice was “maternal, loving, somehow British, almost ghostly,” Harris writes. Johansson, on the other hand, was younger and had a “more passionate” voice, which brought “more admiration.”
The genius of Johansson's performance in Her is the range of emotions she brings to the role — keep in mind, she's never on screen. But it's also an evolution of the character. When Theodore first met Samantha, she was a much simpler, stable, and much more predictable person. She more or less resembles ChatGPT-4o.
However, as the story unfolds, Samantha grows up with Theodore. She begins to experience emotions, at least her AI kind of emotions. She ceases to be the fantasy of her perfect, obedient girlfriend, a submissive, attentive woman with no needs of her own, and becomes her own being that does not exist around Theo. Masu. Johansson's playing has also become deeper and more delicate.