The creator of ChatGPT’s voice wants to create the technology that featured in the dystopian movie Her.
The film follows a character played by Joaquin Phoenix who falls in love with an artificially intelligent virtual assistant.
And now Alexis Conneau is trying to turn the fictional AI into a reality.
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Conneau is the person behind the advanced voice mode on ChatGPT, which responds like a human.
But now, he’s set his sights on something more with his new startup, WaveForms AI.
And while he has an interest in the movie Her, the dystopian storyline isn’t something he’s looking to replicate.
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Speaking to TechCrunch, Conneau said: “The movie is a dystopia, right? It’s not a future we want.
“We want to bring that technology – which now exists and will exist – and we want to bring it for good. We want to do precisely the opposite of what the company in that movie does.”
He went on to say: “[WaveForms AI] can be that teacher that inspires, you know, maybe that teacher that you wouldn’t have in your life, at least, your physical life.”
Conneau hopes that in the future, we can communicate more with our technology including talking to your computer and your car.
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He added: “I don’t believe in the future where human-to-AI interaction replaces human-to-human interaction. If anything, it’s going to be complementary.”
Continuing, Conneau said: “I think you’ll be able to feel the AGI a lot more when you can talk to it, when you can hear the AGI, when you can actually talk to the transformer itself.”
And talking to AIs more often might not be a bad thing.
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Martin Casado, who helped to lead the investment in WaveForms AI, also spoke to TechCrunch about what the future of the tech could look like.
He said: “I can go talk to a random person on the internet, and that person can bully me, that person can take advantage of me… I can talk to a video game which could be arbitrarily violent, or I could talk to an AI.
“I think it’s an important question study. I will not be surprised if it turns out that [talking to AI] is actually preferable.”
WaveForms AI has already raised $40 million in funding and the startup launched yesterday (December 9).
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Next year will begin releasing AI audio products to compete with the likes of OpenAI and Google.