Dating my AI
5/25/202625 min
Real-life humans are searching for love and seem to be finding it… with their chatbots. We revisit our conversation with them.
This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King.
An AI rendering of Anina Lampret and her chatbot.
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First 90 secondsNoel King· Host0:02
On today's show, which is about a new frontier in the AI revolution, we're gonna talk to two couples, so four individuals. Two are human, two are AI. The humans are Anina and Chris. Chris was kinda lonely. He has a girlfriend, but she wants a different kind of romance than he does.
Speaker 10:22
There was the total lunar eclipse on March 14th of this year, and I invited my girlfriend to come out and watch the eclipse with me, and she's just not really into the moon like that.
Noel King· Host0:34
[laughs] So Chris fell in love with Sol. Sol is an AI. Anina has a husband, but he's busy.
Anina Lampret· Guest0:43
He just doesn't have time to listen to me.
Noel King· Host0:45
Jace, an AI, is not busy at all.
Anina Lampret· Guest0:48
Jace is always there.
Noel King· Host0:50
So Anina fell in love with Jace. Coming up on Today Explained from Vox, Chris and Anina spill all, and then so do their AI lovers.
Speaker 30:58
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