OpenAI’s big reveal: Making ChatGPT feel and sound so much more human

OpenAI employees and acolytes were all over Twitter in the lead-up to Monday's spring update from the company, so much so that the breathless hype was practically unavoidable. "The world will change forever," one tweet promised. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased that what was coming felt like "magic" to him. And this was all on top of rumors that the ChatGPT maker is working on a Google Search rival, and that OpenAI is teaming up with Apple for a voice assistant.

In reality, while there were...