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.
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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!