Back in 2013, when the movie Her came out about a man who did just that, it was seen as science fictiony and weird, but that was when we were using the iPhone 5. A decade before chat GPT. Now, says Briony Cole, host of a podcast called Future of Sex, within the next two years, it will be completely normalized to have a relationship with an A.I. So to those of you for whom this may be your last Valentine's Day with a human, I say good luck and may you never hear those three terrible words, battery is low. If you think I'm exaggerating about this, let me give you the statistics. Researchers who've analyzed a million chat GPT interaction logs say the average person uses A.I. for mainly two things. One, cheating on term papers. That's true. And two, some kind of relationship. Already over 50 million Americans are using A.I. companion apps and 20% of Americans have already engaged in flirtatious conversations with chat bots. A quarter of young adults believe A.I. has the potential to fully (40/45)