Would YOU pay $99 a month for an AI that can get you dates? Hinge app unveils Audrey the 'virtual wing woman'
- Hinge dating app is testing Audrey that will cost $99/month
- AI will talk to a user's matches and setup a date
- Will also provide data and feedback to help user find more matches
Artificial intelligence (AI) can diagnose illnesses, fight parking tickets, and now, AI is being to find humans love.
Dating app Hinge is currently testing a virtual assistant called 'Audrey' that will act as the user's wing woman – it talks to their matches and sets up a date.
The technology is currently in beta, but Hinge is said to offer the service for $99 a month in bid to 'say goodbye to matching, messaging and scheduling'.
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Dating app Hinge is currently testing a virtual assistant called 'Audrey' that will act as the user's wing woman – it talks to their matches and sets up a date. The technology is currently in beta, but Hinge is said to offer the service for $99 a month
The dating assistant was first spotted by Nathan McAlone with Business Insider, who also received an email from Hinge that shares how Audrey will work.
Hinge members simply select the people they are interested in via the app.
'Audrey will reach out, introduce you, and schedule a date if the feeling is mutual.'
And the technology will give users return 'data and feedback along the way to help you find that perfect match.'
Audrey is not open to the public, but is taking request to get on the list once it is fully released.
Humans are starting to rely on AI for a range of things, so it may not be a surprise that we are looking to them to help with matters of the heart.
A separate Japanese technology company, NTT Resonant, is inventing a robot designed to dish out love advice.
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The system, called Oshi-el, can show sympathy, suggest a solution to your problem and add a comment of encouragement.
'Most chatbots today are only able to give you very short answers, and mainly just for factual questions,' Makoto Nakatsuji at NTT Resonant told New Scientist.
'Questions about love, especially in Japan, can often be a page long and complicated.
Hinge members simply select the people they are interested in via the app. 'Audrey will reach out, introduce you, and schedule a date if the feeling is mutual'. And the technology will give users return 'data and feedback along the way to help you find that perfect match
'They include a lot of context like family or school, which makes it hard to generate long and satisfying answers.'
The researchers taught Oshi-el using 190,000 questions and 770,000 answers from the company's own forum.
It still sounds somewhat robotic, with responses like: 'I can see this is a difficult time for you. I understand your feelings.'
Humans are starting to rely on AI for a range of things, so it may not be a surprise that we are looking to them to help with matters of the heart. A separate Japanese technology company, NTT Resonant, is inventing a robot designed to dish out love advice
It is the first AI designed to answer non-factoid questions, the researchers say.
In a new paper, the researchers outline the problem of existing AI when it comes to love advice.
'They can not understand the ambiguous use of words in the questions as word usage can strongly depend on the context, e.g. the word 'relationship' has quite different meanings in the categories of Love advice and other categories,' the authors said in the paper.
'As a result, the accuracies of their answer selections are not good enough.'
Another problem is 'the current methods can only select from among the answers held by QA sites and can not generate new ones' they added.
To give the robot some context, Oshi-el selects and combines sentences from a database, based on the words in the question.
In a new paper, the researchers outline the problem of existing AI when it comes to love advice. They say current AI cannot understand the ambiguous use of words in the questions, as word usage can strongly depend on the context
'Our evaluation shows that our method achieves 20 per cent higher accuracy in answer construction than the method based on the current best answer selection method,' the authors wrote.
The researchers hope to improve on the accuracy of the algorithm, but cannot get the funding.
'It's hard to get money for love,' Dr Nakatsuji said.
'If we develop it for travel, we will be able to monetise it through hotels or restaurants.'
ARE THESE THE FUNNIEST AGONY AUNT LETTERS EVER?
When you're in a sticky situation, sometimes the advice of a total stranger can offer some fresh perspective.
But some it's little wonder that some would prefer to write to an advice column than turn to their nearest and dearest given the rather unusual nature of their problems.
Some of the more bizarre questions sent to agony aunts have been shared on the web, including a man whose wife insisted on painting his penis with nail polish to check if he was being faithful to another who was worried his wife could be pregnant after strip poker.
A married man tried and failed miserably to cover up his not altogether honourable intentions towards a female neighbour
One man revealed he was worried that his wife could be pregnant after a game of strip poker in one of many hilarious agony aunt letters shared online
A suspicious wife was causing a disturbance with her rather unique way of ensuring her husband stayed faithful
One lovelorn individual luckily wrote to an advice column before carrying out his act of seduction, which would have almost certainly landed him in hot water
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