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AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science?
FromScience Weekly
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
May 16, 2024
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Podcast episode
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Last week the founder of the dating app Bumble forecasted a near future dating landscape where AI ‘dating concierges’ filter out prospective partners for us. But does AI, or even science, really understand what makes two people compatible? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Amie Gordon, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, to find out what we know about why two people go the distance, and why she’s designing her own dating app to learn more.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
Released:
May 16, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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