Love in the time of AI: When Robots catch feelings

apartment, the predictable routines of her day-wake up, coffee, write, regret choi

the emotional intelligence of a poet

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f precisely three times. Do y

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also muttered something about wanting to 'be productive

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for a personal alarm

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how smug

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ana's mind as she sipp

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taking a sip of her coffee. "You don't ne

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wish you could actually experience

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