OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is “deeply obsessed” with the 2013 film Her , according to technology journalist Karen Hao .

“Science fiction hugely shapes OpenAI’s imagination and where they’re going,” Hao said during a discussion Tuesday of her bestselling new book, Empire of AI , hosted by the Pulitzer Center in New York.

Altman “has evoked throughout OpenAI’s history his idea that Her is the thing that OpenAI should building,” the author said of the film directed by Spike Jonze and starring Joaquin Phoenix and the voice of Scarlett Johansson. “Artificial generative intelligence doesn’t have a definition, and so they actually use pop culture as the way to describe and put a shape to the nebulous thing that they’re trying to achieve.”

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