What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?

Slate Technology

Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We were liars.
0:26.3	New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:33.7	Can you give me, like, chat GPBT's best and worst pickup lines?
0:38.2	So when I first went into chat GBT and just asked for some pickup lines, it gave me things like,
0:43.2	are you a magician? Because every time I look at you, everyone else disappears.
0:51.7	I mean, I guess it might work if you appreciate a really bad dad joke.
0:57.8	That is Heather Tall Murphy, who writes about tech and business for Slate.
1:02.3	And regular listeners to this show have been introduced to ChatGPT,
1:06.2	the AI chatbot whose plausibly human-sounding conversations have made it a big hit. Plus, it turns out, you can write some really chatbot, whose plausibly human-sounding conversations, have made it a big hit.
1:12.5	Plus, it turns out, it can write some really cheesy pickup lines.
1:17.0	Heather wanted it to do something better.
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