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Hello and welcome to this week's Tech life with me, Shona McCallum. On today's show,

dating has changed hugely in the past decade thanks to tech, from online profiles to

swiping on apps to virtual video dates. But now some people are going a step further.

One of the girls that I talk to, she is a university student and she has never

have any relationship before. So you can say like her first boyfriend is actually an AI.

We hear about the women in China who are dating chatbots, plus the

problem of food production around the world. There's a demand for food that's increasing. There's

about a 50% increase in calorie production needed by 2050, according to the UN. So we've got to

figure out how to make more food globally.

That's a Silicon Valley veteran who's trying to tackle the issue with new technology. And how can your fashion choices affect mass surveillance?

That's all coming up on today's tech life. We're starting in China, where the BBC has been looking into a recent trend for AI boyfriends.

It began last year when people discovered a version of chat GPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot that's been what's known as jailbroken or changed.

Basically, it bypassed the maker's content policies.

The version is called Dan,

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