A man who used ChatGPT to go on hundreds of dates has found love and is engaged with a woman he met during his AI dating spree. Alexandr Zhadan, 23, matched with 5,000 women on Tinder and used a modified version of the AI software to whittle those down to a shortlist of 100 who he then dated. 'I broke up with my ex, and I wanted to find a new relationship, and I felt a bit exhausted about the idea of just swiping people on Tinder, and finding out that this is not the right person for me. 'I was talking about this with my friends, and one of them mentioned the idea of GPT, and how it could optimize finding dates. And it became a pet project.'

From'Ex Machina' to'I, Robot', humanoid robots have been a staple feature in science fiction blockbusters throughout the years. Now, lifelike robots are becoming more and more popular in the real world, with many able to produce human speech and facial expressions with eerie precision. This week, the developers behind Ameca, 'the world's most advanced humanoid robot', have released a new video showing off their bot's eerily lifelike facial expressions. In the video, Ameca is asked what the saddest day of her life is. She responds that it was realising she would'never experience something like true love', adding that it's a'depressing and isolating thing' to come to terms with.

Once upon a time, I dated a loving robot. I knew before hand, that it was a one-night stand. I was forewarned that the bot was still in training. But since that first date, I was convinced that "bots" would one day be a viable romantic option. This was over a decade ago when I wasn't so jaded by technology's overwhelming potential. Much later, I met someone loving online.

Every good love story has a moment in which the precious ingénue, blind to the complexities of the world, misinterprets the lover's move. Romeo, believing Juliet to be dead, poisons himself. The folly of love is not so much about what we do when we are flooded with feelings, but what can happen when we have incomplete data. This is perhaps why a crop of new apps have arrived, harnessing the powers of artificial intelligence, to offer relationship advice. One of them, Mei, is billed as a "relationship assistant."

A drone flies outside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Kresge Auditorium during the 2018 Solve conference. The project connects tech entrepreneurs with leaders in government, business and academia to tackle world problems. MIT's recent billion-dollar commitment to its new AI-focused school, the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, represents an essential advance, not for its magnitude but for its plans to infect the rest of the university with AI. Announced earlier this month, MIT's new school's mission includes engaging across MIT to explore how AI might impact research across fields from engineering and social sciences to the humanities. MIT's president, Rafael Reif, explained the purpose of the school is to "educate bilinguals of the future."

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them" Agreeing on a definition of artificial intelligence can be extremely challenging. Few experts seem to have as many disagreements as for the ones working in this field. At its core, however, AI is a machine behavior that mimics those cognitive functions that we (wrongly) assume are the exclusive preserve of humans and animals. If we accept this simplistic definition, therefore, AI is nothing more than a particular type of intelligence demonstrated by computers, not too dissimilar to the one that me, you or your dog may have.

Right from old-fashioned matchmaking to modern dating services, romantic matchmakers have focused on what singles themselves desired when they assisted them in the hunt for their soulmate. In other words, there has been nothing decisively new under the sun for several hundred years. At the request of DR3, researchers at DTU Compute have developed a self-learning algorithm and sent it in search of the recipe for a good relationship. "The algorithm receives a huge amount of information about each individual person in each of the 667 relationships, for example about food and transport habits, childhood town, height, number of brothers and sisters, pets, consumption patterns, and much more--including things that are not normally regarded as relevant to our choice of partner. The algorithm then looks for a pattern in the relationship based on the information. In this way, the algorithm itself learns what the ingredients in a stable relationship are, and how they are to be mixed," explains the creator of the algorithm, Professor Jan Larsen from DTU Compute.

What would Nana say if she tried to find her one true love on Tinder? A link has been sent to your friend's email address. What would Nana say if she tried to find her one true love on Tinder?

Well, I'd already seen Assassin's Creed, so I figured I might as well see the other sci-fi movie released this Christmas, Passengers, starring the they're-so-hot-right-now duo of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. Reviews were tepid, and I wasn't expecting much, but the film did manage to surprise me in one significant way. The marketing for Passengers has been all over the place. The film is either pitched as an action blockbuster, as Jim (Pratt) and Aurora (Lawrence) try to save a malfunctioning ship Sunshine-style, or a romance, where Pratt and Lawrence find love as the only two people accidentally awakened with 90 years left to go on an interstellar cruise. I imagined there would be some twist embedded in the film, but what I found when I watched it wasn't what I was expecting at all.

This question pops up on the KloudsKape, and my first thought is: How did they know? I'm in the middle of a downward spiral, almost crying as I choke down my lysine-dopamine smoothie and hunch over the teak bar at the Zyme Shack. As with all these questions, I don't even have to ponder before I answer with an eyeblink--it's lonesome, of course. Something about the way you have to purse your lips for a nonexistent kiss at the end of the word, the extra weight of that second syllable--the word lonesome is definitely more miserable. Soon I've answered a dozen other questions in the retinal sensorium, about everything from Koffee Kop to a local bike-lane ordinance, each of them just a sparkly ball rolling around the edges of my vision.