In the 1897 play "Cyrano de Bergerac," the titular character pens charming love letters in his friend Christian's name to win over a beautiful crush. With you, my heart sings, forever, my dear. These are the lines ChatGPT served up when prompted to pen its own Cyrano-style love letter. Since its release in November 2022, the AI bot -- a large language learning model produced by OpenAI -- has been used to write poetry, answer existential questions about love and life, and even message users' Tinder matches. Just ask, and it can cook up poems, puns, and conversation openers for singles looking to mingle.

So how did you two meet? The question people typically ask of engaged or otherwise recently committed couples offers quite a range. Now, the odds of the answer "online" are higher than they've been before. Back in 2015, Pew Research reported that 15% of American adults have made use of online dating sites. The percentage rises to 27% for those who fall into the age range of 18 to 24, which marks significant growth over the 10% that were found among that age range in 2013.

LISBON: Forget swiping through endless profiles. Dating apps are using artificial intelligence to suggest where to go on a first date, recommend what to say and even find a partner who looks like your favourite celebrity. Until recently smartphone dating apps - such as Tinder which lets you see in real time who is available and "swipe" if you wish to meet someone - left it up to users to ask someone out and then make the date go well. But to fight growing fatigue from searching through profiles in vain, the online dating sector is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help arrange meetings in real life and act as a dating coach. These new uses for AI - the science of programming computers to reproduce human processes like thinking and decision making - by dating apps were highlighted at the four-day Web Summit which wraps up Thursday in Lisbon.

Forget swiping though endless profiles. Dating apps are using artificial intelligence to suggest where to go on a first date, recommend what to say and even find a partner who looks like your favourite celebrity. Until recently smartphone dating apps--such as Tinder which lets you see in real time who is available and "swipe" if you wish to meet someone--left it up to users to ask someone out and then make the date go well. But to fight growing fatigue from searching through profiles in vain, the online dating sector is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help arrange meetings in real life and act as a dating coach. These new uses for AI--the science of programming computers to reproduce human processes like thinking and decision making--by dating apps were highlighted at the four-day Web Summit which wraps up Thursday in Lisbon.