When AI Looks for Love: Neural Networks Manage Dating Apps
Romance platforms are experiencing a surge of “artificial matchmakers,” states The Economist, dissecting the narrative of Alexander Zhadan, a young programmer in his twenties hailing from Moscow.
He didn’t search for romance personally, but crafted a bot with neural networking capabilities that performed swipes (indicated interest in profiles) for him on Tinder, conversed with 5,000 women, embarked on 100 dates, and proposed marriage to the individual chosen by the algorithm.
And this is not a singular case.
As per research conducted by Match Group and the Kinsey Institute, one-fourth of American dating platform users are already employing AI to compose a profile or draft messages.
Currently, applications such as Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble are exploring the implementation of neural network-based aides to support users in discovering compatible matches.
Concurrently, researcher Luke Branning from the University of Leeds posits that AI will simply augment suspicion in relationships, and dating applications themselves have witnessed a decline in clientele in recent years. Even the Moscow programmer’s future wife was initially “taken aback” upon discovering that she had been selected by him, rather than Branning.
