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AI Dating Might Actually Not Be So Bad
Fed-up online daters should give artificial-intelligence matchmakers a chance.
AI can be a helping hand in the romance department.
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Most people seem to instinctively reject any suggestion that artificial intelligence might be able to help people find love. When Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of dating app Bumble, said earlier this year that AI concierges might one day “date” for us, the idea was called a “dystopian hell” and “the end of the road for humans.”
I was in the audience for Herd’s comments, and I’ll admit I winced along with everyone else. But now that I’ve had a little more time to think about it, I think we need to give the prospect of AI-enhanced dating some additional consideration.