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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Alex Hern

UNCOVERED: As the ai world gathers in seoul can an accelerating industry balance progress against safety - Caught on Camera

Joaquin Phoenix in the Spike Jonze film Her
Joaquin Phoenix in the movie Her: a vision of the future of AI? Photograph: Warner Bros./Sportsphoto/Allstar

This week, artificial intelligence caught up with the future – or at least Hollywood’s idea of it from a decade ago.

“It feels like AI from the movies,” wrote the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, of his latest system, an impressive virtual assistant. To underline his point he posted a single word on X – “her” – referring to the 2013 film starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a futuristic version of Siri or Alexa, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

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