What's up with ChatGPT's new sexy persona? Arwa Mahdawi

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," Arthur C Clarke famously said. And this could certainly be said of the impressive OpenAI update to ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, which was released on Monday. With the slight caveat that it felt a lot like the magician was a horny 12-year-old boy who had just watched the Spike Jonze movie Her. If you aren't up to speed on GPT-4o (the o stands for "omni") it's basically an all-singing, all-dancing, all-seeing version of the original chatbot. It can give you advice, it can rate your jokes, it can describe your surroundings, it can banter with you.