It was 8 a.m. and I was sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop when I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT . It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office.

I was testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5 , OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGPT. GPT-5 dropped this summer after many months of speculation and delays , promising AI users a faster and smarter chatbot experience. The jury's still out on whether or not OpenAI has delivered. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, allegin

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