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ISSUE 97 / 2017 TECHNOLOGY Tinder boss predicts that in five years, Artificial Intelligence will be able to find your match. If you are an avid user of the internet, you know that around every corner, you are bound to run into an 'internet troll' who spend their time just writing abusive and obnoxious comments. 16 TINDER BOSS PREDICTS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL FIND YOU A DATE GOOGLE TO HELP FIGHT OFF ABUSIVE COMMENTS The dating app Tinder has currently been swiping right with popularity as reportedly 25 million people are members since the conception of the app, as reported per 2016. The app has notably been known as a punchline, as it gained a reputation for being an outlet for 'casual relationships.' However it has become so much more, as many people have reportedly married their tinder matches. To take this one step further, according to a report by the BBC, Tinder founder Sean Rad claims that the company is looking into incorporating Siri into the match making mix. "I think this might sound crazy," Rad told attendees at Start-Up Grind. "In five years time, Tinder might be so good, you might be like 'Hey Siri, what's happening tonight? And Tinder might pop up and say There's someone down the street you might be attracted to. She's also attracted to you. She's free tomorrow night. We know you both like the same band, and it's playing – would you like us to buy you tickets?'… and you have a match." So forget about AI taking over the world, it seems like in five years time, AI will actually become your wing-man or wing-woman. Thankfully, Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) and Jigsaw, formerly known as Google Ideas, launched a new technology named Perspective, which will help online platforms and news organizations identify abusive comments on their websites. Perspective will review comments and score them based on the similarity to comments which are referred to as "toxic" by people or comments which likely caused someone to leave a conversation. The technology had already been tested on the New York Times and the parties involved hope to branch out into other news organizations such as The Economist and The Guardian, as well as other websites. With news like this, we could potentially see the end of keyboard warriors!

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