ChatGPT might actually be worth talking to now
THE SO WHAT
If early users feel ChatGPT’s new voice mode finally behaves like a human conversation instead of a lecture, the friction to using AI as a default interface drops sharply. Expect a wave of “voice-first” experiments in consumer and enterprise apps that previously wrote off assistants as too clunky.
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