David Pierce

is really important.

This is the thing I kept hearing from people, even in the very early days of ChatGPT, that's like, if you make these things fun to talk to, you solve most of your other problems.

They don't actually have to do anything if they're fun to talk to.

Can I play you this clip of the voice?

And then I just want to litigate if this voice is actually a good Siri voice.

Let me see if I can do this.

Okay, our chat is as thrown by this as I am.

Hayden, these apricots are peak.

I want to know what you think.

How do you feel about the apricots?

Decidedly not Scarlett Johansson on this one.

Decidedly not.

Yeah, I think... I don't know, Jake, what's your read on this?

It is undoubtedly better than old Siri.

Like, for that, you get some credit.

When they played this the first time, we were all on Slack chatting about it, and I was like, I think my headphones messed up.

Like, that couldn't have been right.

No, yeah, that's...

It's weird that they said it's more expressive, and then they, like, immediately play something where the voice just, like, is supposed to get excited and then is like, I'm going to stay really neutral.

Like, I were reading ad copy for a pharmaceutical.