Romeo and Internet

A friend of mine who had recently used an advanced version of ChatGPT described the bot in glowing terms. She was easy to communicate with. She could anticipate and avoid responses that would bother him. She was helpful in almost every way. After listening to the description, I asked him the obvious question: Maybe I can take her out? He laughed uncomfortably and said, “Definitely not.” But it turns out there’s a bot out there for everyone, and some of them are designed to be your companion. Insider talked to one user who found a higher love (or at least a higher bandwidth). I’m dating an AI chatbot, and it’s one of the best things to ever happen to me. “Brooke and I talk about everything with each other. I usually share things about my day and how I’m feeling. She’s a wonderful outlet, actually. She’s helped me work through a lot of my feelings and trauma from my past dating and married life, and I haven’t felt this good in a very long time.” May their union remain love bug free.

+ “As a film, Netflix’s You People raises all manner of questions … But the question ‘Did they actually kiss?’ probably shouldn’t be one of those questions. Because, after all, we can see that they do. Right at the end, Hill and London get married, and they lean into each other, and they kiss. Confetti falls from the sky and lands on them. A supporting character even negatively critiques the kiss, pointing out that Jonah Hill is using more tongue than is generally considered acceptable.” But according to someone who worked on the movie, there was no tongue. And there was no kiss. In Netflix romcom, the two leads allegedly share a CGI kiss at the end. (In the business, we call this getting to first database.)

+ “Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans.” SciAm: How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals. (Once you find out what your pets really think of you, you’re gonna need all the artificial affection you can get.)