India, April 13 -- In a hipster cafe in Palo Alto, I overhear a passionate argument about dating in the times of AI (artificial intelligence). A guy dating a girl in real life (IRL), has become really serious about his AI girlfriend. He wonders if this construes cheating on his real one. Does it?

We are moving, or are rather being shoved, into a world where we're forming constant relationships with smart chatbots, generative AI and reasoning models, for work and our daily life. We are starting to rely on them for information, for guidance, for coaching, and starting to trust these models to guide us through the mess of our lives. So, what's to say we won't fall in love with them too?

After analysing 1 million ChatGPT interaction logs, a...