Irish Examiner view: Chatting up

AI romance

It would appear that, as in real life, robots can misunderstand good intentions.

Many column centimetres have been filled in the past two months by commentators speculating on the emerging abilities of artificial intelligence , and in particular the technology known as ChatGPT.

Now evidence emerges that, as in life, there are perils in communication and even a robot can misunderstand your good intentions. A New York Times journalist, Kevin Roose, testing a beta version of Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine, found himself on the end of some surprising chat-up lines.