Every essay I've written this past week started as a ChatGPT Voice conversation on my walk home.

I'd tell it: I'm going to brainstorm and dictate an essay. Don't interrupt unless I make a point worth pulling on or say something that needs clarification.

Then I'd talk for 20 minutes. It might chime in five or six times with small things like "yep," "I see," or "good idea." Just enough to feel like someone was listening. It made me much more comfortable thinking out loud.

The best part was that if it started responding and I kept talking, it would go, "oh, sorry, keep going."

When I finished, I'd ask, "hey, what was the thing you wanted to mention?" and we'd pick that thread right back up.

It is one thing to have a cool demo on YouTube, but it's another to enable this for millions of people around the world.

I have already tested this out to talk to other people in different languages, to brainstorm ideas, to teach me new concepts.

At OpenAI, our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, and I think a model like this is a huge step forward beyond work, for all people, at a scale only we can serve.