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"Oh, stop it--you're making me blush," the throaty voice said, laughing off a compliment. Barret Zoph, who'd given the compliment, looked pleased. As he should--Zoph represents OpenAI, the company behind the voice. "We are looking at the future of interaction between ourselves and the machines," promised Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer. ChatGPT-4o is just one of a wave of new conversational A.I., including the rollout of Meta AI last month.