SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI’s latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people’s moods.

The effect conjures up images of the 2013 Spike Jonze move “Her,” where the (human) main character falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system, leading to some complications.

While few will find the new model seductive, OpenAI says it does works faster than previous versions and can reason across text, audio and video in real time.

GPT-4o, short for “omni,” will power OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT chatbot, and will be available to users, including those who use the free version, in the coming weeks, the company announced during a short live-streamed update. CEO Sam Altman, who was not one of the presenters at the event, simply posted the word “her” on the social media site X.

During a demonstration with Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and other executives, the AI bot chatted in real time, adding emotion — specifically “more drama” — to its voice as requested. It also helped walk through the steps needed to solve a simple math equation without first spitting out the answer, and assisted with a more complex software coding problem on a computer screen.

It also took a stab at extrapolating a person’s emotional state by looking at a selfie video of their face (deciding he was happy since he was smiling) and translated English and Italian to show how it could help people who speak different languages have a conversation.

Gartner analyst Chirag Dekate said the update, which lasted less than 30 minutes, gave the impression OpenAI is playing catch-up to larger rivals.

“Many of the demos and capabilities showcased by OpenAI seemed familiar because we had seen advanced versions of these demos showcased by Google in their Gemini 1.5 pro launch,” Dekate said. “While Open AI had a first-mover advantage last year with ChatGPT and GPT3, when compared to their peers, especially Google, we now are seeing capability gaps emerge.”

Google plans to hold its I/O developer conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, where it is expected to unveil updates to its own Gemini, its AI model.

Donald Glover has revived his musical alter ego Childish Gambino and will hit the road for a world tour that includes an Oct. 2 stop at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center.

Tickets for the show, which will serve as Glover’s local debut as an arena headliner, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Ticketmaster. Fans can sign up for early access to tickets at thenewworldtour.com. American Express cardholders also have a preorder option that begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Neither the promoter nor the venue announced prices.

Glover, 40, grew up in Georgia and was voted “Most Likely to Write for ‘The Simpsons’ ” in his high school yearbook. He began rapping and creating electronic music while studying dramatic writing at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

In 2006, Tina Fey hired Glover as a writer on her sitcom “30 Rock.” He held that position until 2009, when he took a starring role in the sitcom “Community.” At that time, he also began releasing music as Childish Gambino, a name he took from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator.

Glover spent much of the ’10s focused on music, releasing three albums and a series of gold and platinum singles, including “Heartbeat,” “3005,” “Redbone” and “This Is America,” which topped the charts in a dozen countries.

He also created the widely acclaimed show “Atlanta,” which ran for four seasons on FX, and starred in the films “Magic Mike XXL,” “The Martian,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”

In 2017, Glover first suggested he was retiring his musical stage name. But he toured again in 2018 and played festivals in 2019. He released his fourth album, “3.15.20.,” on the same day as its title. On Monday, he issued a revised version of the record, now named “Atavista,” along with a new video for the song “Little Foot Big Foot”:

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