Speed Reading — A.I. Love - Level 6 — 500 wpm

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OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT, is worried that people may become emotionally dependent on artificial intelligence voices. The company released a new "advanced voice mode" to users last week. The chatbot comes equipped with an array of lifelike voices that are almost indistinguishable from human voices. They can have an authentic conversation in real time, laugh at the right time, interject with "umms," "aahs" and "hmms," and they can adjust to being interrupted. An OpenAI report states that the newly-released, human-sounding voices may lead people to rely on AI for companionship, and even for romance and love. It cautioned: "Users might form social relationships with the AI, reducing their need for human interaction."

The OpenAI report warns that future chatbots could fundamentally change societies. They will reshape how we interact with family, friends and colleagues. They may even usurp communication among humans. The report points to benefits of the new tool. These include bringing comfort and friendship to lonely people, and giving confidence to those who lack self-confidence. The report says people may gain enough confidence to start dating in the real world. On the flip side, chatbots could cause people to be ruder, more impatient and more selfish. Wired.com writes that the new chatbot includes "the potential…to amplify societal biases, spread disinformation, and aid in the development of chemical or biological weapons".

Comprehension questions
  1. What might people become emotionally dependent on?
  2. What is the new chatbot almost indistinguishable from?
  3. What does the new chatbot interject conversation with?
  4. What can the new AI chatbot adjust to?
  5. What might AI reduce the need for?
  6. What could future chatbots could fundamentally change?
  7. What might happen to communication among humans?
  8. What might people who lack confidence start doing?
  9. What might the chatbot amplify?
  10. What might the chatbot spread?

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