Whether searching for the perfect date or the perfect gift for your significant other, many people associate Valentine's Day with feelings of nervousness, pressure or loneliness.
At the University of Florida, where we routinely turn to AI to solve pressing challenges, we couldn't help but wonder whether AI, for all its human characteristics, could also assist in navigating the emotionally tricky holiday. Enter ChatGPT, technology's latest celebrity power tool, which pulls from the vast wealth of information on the internet to generate unique, conversational responses to natural-language prompts.
"You can ask it to write you a one-page essay on a specific topic, for example, and in seconds it gives you something that seems to make sense," said Mark McCallister, UF's director of academic technology. "Rather than providing you with just a list of hyperlinks like you would get from Google or other search engines, ChatGPT pulls from this massive volume of words written on the topic and throws them together in good English."
McCallister, who leads UF's UFIT Center for Instructional Technology and Training, is charged with helping UF faculty adapt to the rapidly changing environment, where tools such as ChatGPT are constantly creating new opportunities and challenges. McCallister agreed that the tool could be helpful in planning a romantic date, creating an effective dating app profile or even crafting the perfect pick-up line. However, he cautioned people against putting too much faith in responses from the AI tool.
