Simulating Dates with GPT-4: A New Approach to Treating Dating Anxiety?

A blogger recounts years of receiving emails from young men struggling with dating anxiety. He experiments with GPT-4 to simulate a date, creating a virtual female character to interact with a male character suffering from severe dating anxiety. While GPT-4 facilitates fluid conversation, its overly positive and accommodating responses lack realism, failing to effectively simulate the nuances and feedback of real-world dating. The blogger suggests that with fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, future large language models could create effective dating simulators to help overcome dating anxiety.