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AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science?

AI, algorithms and apps: can dating be boiled down to a science?

Science Weekly vor 2 Jahren

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.

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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 and her colleague associate
professor of sociology Elizabeth Bruch, are designing their own
dating app to learn more.. Help support our independent journalism
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