OpenAI has delayed its seductive ChatGPT voice assistants

When you’ve been dreaming about spending your summer time whispering candy nothings into the digital ears of one of many seductive ChatGPT voice assistants that OpenAI showed off final month, you’ll must dream somewhat longer. On Tuesday, the corporate introduced that its “superior Voice Mode” characteristic wants extra time within the oven “to succeed in our bar to launch.” The characteristic can be accessible to a small group of customers to collect suggestions, after which launch to all paying ChatGPT clients within the fall.

“We’re enhancing the mannequin’s capacity to detect and refuse sure content material,” OpenAI posted on X. “We’re additionally engaged on enhancing the consumer expertise and getting ready our infrastructure to scale to tens of millions whereas sustaining real-time responses.”

Voices have been part of ChatGPT since 2023. However final month, OpenAI demoed an upgraded model that sounded so humanlike it drew comparisons with Samantha, the seductive voice assistant within the 2013 film Her, performed by Scarlett Johansson. Weeks after the presentation, the actress accused OpenAI of copying her voice regardless of denying permission.

OpenAI stated it is nonetheless determining when the brand new voices (minus the Johansson soundalike) will roll out to paying customers this fall. One other characteristic that lets the voice assistants use your cellphone’s digicam to know the world round you has additionally been delayed till that point. “Actual timelines rely upon assembly our excessive security and reliability bar,” the corporate stated.