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It seems inevitable that if AI algorithms help humans flirt, it means we'll eventually have a 2 people get married because John with help from Google's flirting AI interacted with Mary with help from her Facebook flirting AI.

Basically, it means it was the Google software engineers flirting with with the Facebook software programmers!

Seems ripe for a Hollywood romcom script. Two people hook up because of their respective dating AI apps told them what to say. If the movie was long enough, you could include them getting divorced and the husband & wife's attorneys each using legal AI software to optimize the best divorce settlement.

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I think Douglas Adams was fairly prescient back in 1987: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

Replace the chirpy lady in this article with an algorithm, replace the potential matches with algorithms too, and we're there.

>If the movie was long enough, you could include them getting divorced and the husband & wife's attorneys each using legal AI software to optimize the best divorce settlement.

You're being too pessimistic. Instead, in light of the fact that humans typically married within extremely small communities (and so got along fine with far less matchmaking power than we have today), the couple could learn to live with each other's faults as they realize that even if they start out imperfect, each one can each grow in to what the other one needs.

The divorce rate in New York is pretty high and the matchmaking pool there is gigantic. In fact, divorces tend to be a little more common in dense urban areas. Maybe that's evidence that insufficient matchmaking is not the bottleneck of relationship happiness.

You are conflating remaining married with happiness. It is just as possible that seeing more people increases your odds of realizing you dobt have to "settle".

That said, I do believe that most people could be happy with one another with the right mindset. I just dont think the data you presented proves the cause of urban divorce rates.

I could see this as a Black Mirror script too

The "Hang the DJ" episode is sort of along those lines where your AI's pretend date in a virtual world and give a result back in an app.

I believe Stross had that as a background detail in Accelerondo too

There is one, where AI copies of people's personalities are put into a weird dome world of sorts and spend (virtual) years in the (virtual) (and bizarre / forced) dating world until they find a match.

can this be an adultswim or comedy central short or something. he only loses the case because his law-ai.biz subscription, lapsed.

The Hot Take is that this is computers breeding humans.

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