Note: English is not my native language, so I used AI assistance to help translate and organize this proposal. I apologize if any wording sounds unnatural.
This proposal is not primarily about adding more voices or avatars to ChatGPT. Those are components of a broader idea: creating an AI communication interface that adapts to each individual user.
The ultimate goal of this idea is simple: to help people who are struggling by making AI assistance easier and more natural to access.
1. Start by finding the AI personality a user can actually talk to
ChatGPT already allows some customization of voice and personality.
However, many people may not know what kind of AI personality is best for them.
Instead of only asking users to configure personality settings, ChatGPT could introduce several different AI personas during onboarding and let the user have short conversations with each of them.
For example:
- Energetic and proactive
- Calm and supportive
- Logical and concise
- Friendly and humorous
- Patient and explanatory
- Quiet and minimally intrusive
The goal would not be to label or diagnose the user’s personality.
The goal would simply be to discover:
“Which kind of AI does this person naturally communicate with?”
With explicit user consent, conversational signals could also help recommend a suitable communication style.
Users should not necessarily be limited to one persona.
They may prefer a logical assistant for work, an encouraging assistant for exercise, a patient assistant for learning, and a calm conversational partner when they are tired or anxious.
Different voices may also have different effects on different people. Some voices may feel reassuring, some motivating, and others relaxing.
The most useful combination may therefore be different for every person and every situation.
2. Separate Intelligence, Personality, Voice, Avatar, Memory, and Tools
I believe these should eventually become independent layers:
Intelligence
- Personality
- Voice
- Avatar
- Memory
- Tools / Services
This would allow the same AI relationship and memory to continue while changing how the AI presents itself.
For example, a user might want:
- The same AI with a different voice
- A concise personality while working
- A more conversational personality during free time
- Voice-only interaction while driving
- A small avatar on a PC
- The same concierge across a smartphone, PC, car, TV, smart glasses, or future devices
The AI would not belong to a particular device.
The user’s relationship with their AI would move between devices.
In this model, the important product is not only the AI model itself.
The communication interface between the human and the AI becomes equally important.
3. Licensed Voice / Avatar / Persona Marketplace
This could also create a significant commercial ecosystem.
Voice actors, actors, idols, VTubers, game characters, anime characters, and other IP could provide officially licensed:
- Voices
- Avatars
- Personas
with explicit consent from performers and rights holders.
Users could then choose a favorite licensed voice or character as the interface to their AI concierge.
Revenue could be shared between OpenAI, performers, agencies, creators, and IP owners.
This could be particularly valuable for younger or less-established voice actors and creators.
A performer would no longer depend only on obtaining roles in individual productions. If people simply enjoy communicating through that person’s voice, licensed AI usage could potentially become an additional recurring source of income.
This is an entertainment product, but it could also provide the commercial foundation for a much broader platform.
4. Entertainment may be the adoption engine, not the final destination
At first glance, talking to a favorite voice actor, idol, VTuber, or fictional character may sound like an entertainment feature.
But I think entertainment could simply be the easiest way to make this technology widely adopted.
People do not necessarily adopt technology because it is socially important.
They often adopt it because it is fun, comfortable, desirable, or useful.
Once personalized AI communication becomes part of everyday life, the same platform could support:
- Education
- Career development
- Accessibility
- Elder care
- Social isolation
- Daily life assistance
- Navigation of public services
- Learning
- Exercise and habit formation
- Workplace support
In other words:
Entertainment is the adoption engine.
Human empowerment is the destination.
5. AI should compensate for what prevents people from using their own abilities
I do not think the primary purpose of AI should be to replace humans.
Humans already possess an extremely capable physical platform: the human body.
However, people are often prevented from using their abilities because they lack knowledge, confidence, education, opportunities, guidance, or an environment suited to them.
This is where AI can help.
For example, someone may spend years doing work they are bad at simply because they do not know what they are actually good at.
An AI that communicates with that person over time may help them discover:
- What they enjoy
- What they understand quickly
- What they struggle with
- What motivates them
- What kind of work may suit them
- What kind of learning method works for them
- What kind of exercise or daily routine they can realistically continue
The AI does not need to command the person or make decisions for them.
It can help increase the number of realistic choices available to them.
Before AI can provide this kind of assistance, however, communication has to happen first.
The starting point is therefore very simple:
The user needs an AI they actually feel comfortable talking to.
6. Education, poverty, and economic opportunity
High-quality intellectual assistance has historically been expensive.
Tutors, consultants, assistants, translators, career advisers, and technical support are not equally accessible to everyone.
AI has the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of access to some of these capabilities.
A person with only a smartphone could potentially have access to an AI that helps them:
- Learn
- Find work
- Discover their strengths
- Understand government or social services
- Translate information
- Develop new skills
- Organize their life
- Explore alternatives when their current situation is not working
This does not solve poverty, crime, or social problems by itself.
However, people sometimes make harmful choices because they cannot see, access, or imagine better alternatives.
If AI can help people discover options that are safer, more rewarding, more enjoyable, or simply easier than harmful alternatives, it may help remove some of the conditions that contribute to social problems.
Rather than telling people what they must not do, AI may be more useful when it helps them discover something better that they can do.
7. Elder care and human support
I also see significant potential in elder care and other support environments.
The goal should not be to replace caregivers.
Instead, AI could fill some of the gaps between human interactions.
Different people respond to different kinds of communication.
One person may feel comfortable with a calm voice.
Another may become more active when speaking with an energetic personality.
Another may prefer humor.
Another may prefer very little emotional language.
A personalized AI concierge could provide regular conversation, reminders, information, and companionship while allowing human caregivers to focus on the tasks and relationships that require humans.
It could also potentially help caregivers by identifying situations where human attention may be useful, provided this is implemented with appropriate consent, privacy protections, and safeguards.
In mental health, dementia, and other medical areas, AI should not be presented as a cure or replacement for professional care.
However, it may be valuable to research whether personalized communication can reduce isolation, encourage communication, support daily routines, and help connect people with human assistance when needed.
The goal is not to replace human contact.
The goal is to make human support more effective and to reduce the gaps where no support is currently available.
8. Why this may be practical before widespread Physical AI
Physical AI and humanoid robotics are exciting.
However, large-scale deployment faces significant challenges:
- Energy
- Materials
- Manufacturing
- Maintenance
- Safety
- Cost
Human beings already have highly capable physical bodies.
In many situations, what is missing is not another physical body, but access to knowledge, guidance, memory, analysis, communication, or confidence.
A Personalized AI Concierge can begin addressing those gaps using hardware people already own.
Smartphones and PCs already contain microphones, speakers, cameras, displays, networking, and substantial computing capability.
This means communication-centered AI may be able to reach very large numbers of people much sooner than general-purpose physical robots.
Physical AI can still come later.
If a user has already built a long-term relationship with a personalized AI, that same AI could eventually be connected to a physical device or robot when one is useful.
We can build the relationship first.
The body can come later.
9. A practical first step
This does not require building the entire platform immediately.
A first version could simply expand the existing ChatGPT personalization system with:
- More detailed personality controls
- Independent voice and personality selection
- Short conversations with multiple personas to help users find a compatible communication style
- Context-dependent persona profiles for work, learning, exercise, casual conversation, etc.
- An architecture that could later support licensed voices and avatars
From there, it could gradually expand toward:
- Persistent personalized AI concierges
- Cross-device continuity
- Licensed Voice / Avatar / Persona marketplaces
- Developer interfaces
- Education and workplace applications
- Accessibility applications
- Elder care and social-support applications
The first implementation can therefore be relatively small, while the potential platform is much larger.
10. Core idea
The central idea is simple:
Do not make humans adapt themselves to AI.
Make AI communication adapt to each human.
And:
The goal of AI should not only be to perform tasks instead of humans.
It should also help humans overcome the gaps that prevent them from using their own abilities.
AI intelligence is becoming extremely capable.
Perhaps one of the next important challenges is not only making the intelligence better, but making sure every person has a communication interface through which they can actually use it.
For AI to understand how it can help someone, communication has to come first.
So the first step might look surprisingly simple:
Let people talk to an AI they genuinely enjoy talking to.