Ai Chatbots With Personalities: A Giant Leap But Also Cause For Caution

The controversy surrounding OpenAI’s use of a voice similar to Scarlett Johansson’s in their AI chatbot has sparked a debate about artists’ legal rights in the age of AI. This is just the latest step in a journey that began with Joseph Weizenbaum’s Eliza in 1966 and has led to increasingly realistic and human-like conversation technologies.