Dear AI: This is what happens when you ask an algorithm for relationship advice

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Dear AI: This is what happens when you ask an algorithm for relationship advice
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How we deal with knotty interpersonal problems is a test for a different form of intelligence.

How good is artificial intelligence at solving those knotty interpersonal problems that can strain our relationships? David Robson puts the "wise reasoning" of chatbots to the test.

A few years later, the US psychologist Lewis Terman translated and expanded these tests to include items for older children, such as "If two pencils cost five cents, how many pencils can you buy for 50 cents?". He also changed the way the results were expressed. Given that older children would generally score better than younger children, he created tables of the average score for each age group.

Platforms like ChatGPT are called large language models, which have been fed on huge volumes of text to predict how a human would respond to a particular prompt. Furtherhas helped to refine the algorithms. You won't need me to explain how successful this has become: if you have even glanced at the news, you'll have seen the excitement – and fear – about the potential of these bots.

Reading some of these responses, it is easy to feel that they come from real thought and consideration, rather than being the product of pattern recognition GPT4 goes on to recommend the couple have an open and honest discussion about their expectations, needs and boundaries.

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