The Fifth Floor: My AI boyfriend
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Would you turn to AI to create your perfect partner? Wanqing Zhang from the BBC Global China Unit has been looking into an AI dating trend that is going viral in China. Plus, Daria Taradai from BBC Ukraine tells us what it's like to live and work with power cuts in Kyiv.
Produced by Caroline Ferguson and Alice Gioia.
(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | This is |
| 0:05.0 | You're |
| 0:08.0 | You're actually |
| 0:09.0 | the fifth floor. |
| 0:10.0 | The fifth floor de nie the fifth floor in the news. |
| 0:14.0 | We see me. |
| 0:15.0 | To me have this is the fifth floor |
| 0:17.0 | fornak and me this obat. |
| 0:21.0 | This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC |
| 0:26.2 | journalists from all around the world. I'm your host Parenak Am Edi. |
| 0:42.0 | Many of us want to find love and to find a caring, compassionate partner. The person who says all the right things to you at the |
| 0:45.1 | right time and is always available when you need them. But how real do you need them to |
| 0:51.0 | be? The view's so pretty. |
| 0:53.0 | Damn right, babe. |
| 0:54.0 | And you know what's even prettier? |
| 0:56.0 | You standing right here next to me. |
| 0:59.0 | This could be a usual slightly cheesy conversation a new young couple might have, but the male voice |
| 1:06.6 | you just heard was not actually a person at all. He was AI. So what have I told you that you could create the person of your dreams using AI? |
| 1:18.8 | Juan Chin from the BBC China unit met with the Chinese social media influencer who's created her own AI boyfriend and is sharing her relationship online. |
| 1:30.0 | Juan Chin, who's in the studio with me at the moment, met with Lisa Lee and found out why some people are fed up with dating real people and have turned to AI. |
| 1:41.0 | So Wen Sheen, it's great to have you with us again. Tell me, how did Lisa Lee get into AI dating? |
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