  This report presents a study on the emotional dialogue capability of ChatGPT,
an advanced language model developed by OpenAI. The study evaluates the
performance of ChatGPT on emotional dialogue understanding and generation
through a series of experiments on several downstream tasks. Our findings
indicate that while ChatGPT's performance on emotional dialogue understanding
may still lag behind that of supervised models, it exhibits promising results
in generating emotional responses. Furthermore, the study suggests potential
avenues for future research directions.
