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OpenAI's new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it | TechCrunch

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ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode is the most convincing taste I’ve had of an AI-powered future yet.

The product was kinda glitchy, and the whole idea totally creeps me out, but I was surprised by how much I genuinely enjoyed using it.

Right now, at least, it's not an effective replacement for Siri or Alexa .

Compared to Gemini Live , AVM feels slightly ahead of Google 's competing feature, Gemini Live .

Talking with an AI device like what AVM seems to offer seems to be the evolution of social media’s “friend in your phone” phenomena, offering cheap connections that scratch at our human instincts.

The feature doesn’t make ChatGPT all-knowing, but it does allow people to interact with GPT-4o in a uniquely human way.

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