Using AI to Find a Partner on Tinder
Designing for AI, Facial Recognition, and the Future of Dating.
There is a board game called Go — it is a game where two players alternate placing stones on a board, attempting to surround more territory than the opponent. In May 2017, the world number 1 player lost three games straight to AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence designed to become the best “player” in the game. Because of its number of possible positions and the long term impact of each single moves, conquering Go has been a target for AI for decades.
Compared to Go, swiping on Tinder to me has no complicated strategy — it’s just a simple tedious process of either swiping right or left. It’s like a Bingo. Cute? Check. Smiling? Check. Mildly funny bio? Check. Bingo, swipe right. If we can teach an AI to beat the world’s best player in Go, surely we can teach an AI to swipe for us and find the one on Tinder (after all, Valentine’s is coming up soon).
In this article, I look into existing ML models and think of ways to apply them to Tinder app. I also talk about the…
