As a naturally shy person, I always feel self-conscious when talking to machines. If I get transferred to somebody’s voicemail, I either hang up as soon as I hear the beep or gabble a barely intelligible message like “callmeback whenyougetachancethanksbye”.
So the news that OpenAI has added voice control to its world-conquering AI chatbot ChatGPT () gave me a shiver of dread. Not only are
