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Today we’ll talk about the challenge of teaching AI relationships or at least generating some pickup lines. A recent scientific experience showed us how AI works on the GPT-3 model in terms of relationship building.

It’s been almost 10 years since we were having fun asking Alexa and Siri. Smart assistants are already "used" not only to perform their core functions but also to being a full-fledged conversation buddy. Now, with the help of AI, scientists decided to go further and teach it the art of flirting.
Let’s see what came out of it and see if the scientists were satisfied.

The main idea belongs to Janelle Shane, a research scientist from Colorado, who implemented it into reality with the help of GPT-3.

How did Shane handle that?
Firstly, the article template was fed to 4 different GPT-3 program variants, which were supposed to enhance the starter file with generated predictions. 

Some of the example pickup lines were from Tinder DM screenshots and sound like
“I'm losing my voice from all the screaming your hotness is causing me to do”.
Another one says: “I will briefly summarize the plot of Back to the Future II for you”.

Let's start with the 1st AI, DaVinci, and its variants. Shane herself characterized it as “the largest and most competent” of the 4 AIs. DaVinci’s pickup lines bordered on cute ridicule, ice-humping sentences, and a few intricate phrases, issuing such gems:

• I love you. I don't care if you're a doggo in a trenchcoat.
• You have a lovely face. Can I put it on an air freshener? I want to keep your smell close to me always.
• Wait, this beanie hat, is it fashionable?
• You look like Jesus if he were a butler in a Russian mansion.

Curie, the 2nd candidate, which is not so powerful a piece of software,  created some poetic, mysterious game of words. The “best” variants included:

• Your eyes are like two rainbows and a rainbow of eyes. I can't help but stare.
• I like the ice cream… You can keep me in the freezer for a while but then I melt!
• Hey, my name is John Smith. Will you sit on my breadbox while I cook or is there some kind of speed limit on that thing?

Babbage, our next pipeline maker, appeared more sophisticated in comparison with previous AIs. This program produced such an interesting “piece of arts” in the pickup world :

• You're looking good today. Want snacks?
• It is urgent that you become a professional athlete.
• (In your best Albert Einstein voice) "I wouldn't change a thing."

The last one, Ada, gave the smallest number of options, which looked more like email headings. Here are the examples:

• Body Softening Pads
• 2017 Rugboat 2-tone Neck Tie Shirt, and
• Future Pop-Tarts by Tracey Thorn

The most memorable line of all the pipelines spouted is still the one that was voiced by a more primitive neural network, which had a trend back in 2017: “You look like a thing and I love you.”
What can we take from the experiment results and trends in the use of AI in the industry of “digital love” and dating?

There are areas of human activity that should still be left to people. The use of artificial intelligence in these areas not only suppresses lively communication, eliminating all manifestations of social groups but also seems at least bizarre and ridiculous. 

We’re going to be much more productive and happier using these technologies in business, freeing up time for our loved ones. But not the other way around. 

Can a robot become more human than a human being?