Who is that you are chatting with? Oh, just ChatGPT

When you think of what a voice programmed by artificial intelligence would sound like, you might picture something robotic and stilted, with a staccato cadence incapable of capturing the inflections, speed and emotion required to sound even somewhat human. But this is 2024, and the robots have gotten a serious upgrade. Now they can imitate voices, accents and intonation to an almost creepy degree - for better or worse.

ChatGPT's new Advanced Voice Mode feature, which was released to most users of ChatGPT last week, is an audio version of the original ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to respond to text prompts conversationally. Advanced Voice Mode works in the same way as the original but using audio; those using Advanced Voice Mode speak into the app, and the voice automatically responds. Users can choose one of nine voices, and then through conversation and text...