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TBD | Would You Let A.I. Date For You?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The online dating world can be brutal and repetitive—just the kind of thing you might want to automate. But, in one tech writer’s experience, artificial intelligence isn’t ready to make real connections—at least, not without a lot of help. Guest: Heather Tal Murphy, covers business and technology at Slate Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Can you give me, like, chat GBT's best and worst pickup lines?

0:08.6

So when I first went into chat GBT and just asked for some pickup lines, it gave me things

0:12.6

like, are you a magician because every time I look at you, everyone else disappears?

0:22.4

I mean, I guess it might work if you appreciate a really bad dad joke.

0:28.6

What is Heather Tal Murphy who writes about tech and business for slate?

0:32.6

And regular listeners to this show have been introduced to chat GBT.

0:36.4

The AI chatbot, who's plausibly human sounding conversations, have made it a big hit.

0:42.7

Plus, it turns out, you can write some really cheesy pickup lines.

0:47.2

Heather wanted it to do something better.

0:50.5

And then I asked it, you know, can you get a little more creative?

0:53.3

Can you be a little more weird?

0:55.2

It still was kind of cheesy.

0:56.6

Do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?

1:00.5

But gradually, chat GBT's openers improved, especially when Heather started to train it.

1:07.6

They gave it an article that actually this woman had written about how bad AI is with pickup

1:13.6

lines and said, look at these as examples and then do better.

1:18.9

And by consuming that, it ultimately picked out, you're looking good today, what snacks?

1:25.0

Which, you know, I'm not saying that would work for everyone, but at least it's kind

1:28.1

of strange enough to be kind of funny.

1:30.5

And everyone likes snacks.

1:32.3

That line, you're looking good today, wants snacks, was a winner on Tinder.

1:37.4

Because Heather wasn't just asking AI to write some lines for fun.

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