Quarantinewhile... Stephen Tries Out Actual A.I. Pickup Lines

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[RowynM]

Props to researcher Janelle Shane, who trained the A.I., and whose book, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" is full of more hilarious A.I. shenanigans.

[jaxonhuntsinger]

“A place where the incompetent could ask questions of the uninformed” is such a great line 😂

[layne]

in the AI's defense, "you look like a thing and I love you" is very human-after-last-call pickup line.

[hamlet]

God only knows how much new vocabulary I'm learning from the beginning of these "Quarantine While" segments!!! 🤣

[JonahIronstone]

Janelle Shane (the wonderful scientist who is committing these A.I. shenanigans) has made the world so much weirder in just the right way.

[waterfrodo]

A.I. cannot see any difference between the tasks of "generating pickup lines" and "generating nonsense". I can relate.

[ketfoen]

"My name is a complicated combination of 45 degrees of forward motion, 25 degrees of leftward drift, 75 degrees of upward acceleration and infinity and that is the point where my love for you stops", good lord if this isn't enough to make any girl laugh and swoon for you, then she doesn't have good installed A.I.

[tekila]

Whoever needs this: "You look like a thing and I love you"!

[bristlecone]

I know the woman who trained the AI to generate those pickup lines. She has a book out, "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" by Janelle Shane.

[wolframstahl]

"Infinity. That's the point where my love for you stops."
Damn, that's actually so romantic! No joke, that's a really beautiful thing to say. Sure, it's a little weird phrasing, but I wouldn't mind that.

[anjulikamins]

I will say yes to any pick up line sweetly said by my favorite silver fox!

[HermesSonofZeus]

Don't forget: "You’re looking good today. Want snacks?" I mean, that's actually not baaaad...

[sacrilegiousboi]

Stephen and evie both look like things and I love them lol

[bartfoster]

"You look like a thing and I love you!"

What did they have the AI learn pickup lines from, Will Ferrell movies? Lmao 🤣

[TheDreadfulCurtain]

Man that was hilarious I laughed so much throughout the Quarantinewhile introduction so well written. But the AI language pick ups were icing on the breadbox. Compliments to the writers and researchers and Stephen and co. Awesome job👏👏👏

[DirtyEmpire]

Look, I just laughed my ass off so hard that just woke my girlfriend violently thinking I was having one my moments. Hats off, steve, my single greatest quarantinwhile... Ever.

[KristianKumpula]

I'm going to start actively looking for any opportunities to use the "you look like Jesus if he were a butler in a Russian mansion" line.

[rosesantos]

My computer once asked me if I wanted to “continue unprotected” but “Can I see your parts list?” Is way hotter! 😏

[Polygon]

The laughter in the background is so nice to hear.

[christophermerlot]

That Jesus/Russian mansion line is literally great Surrealist poetry. Andre Breton couldn't have done it better.