
Whitney Wolfe Herd, CEO of the popular dating app Bumble, intends to use artificial intelligence to help create better connections and unique matches, including coaching users in dating and relationships, along with saving users from swiping too much.
Speaking at the Code Conference 2023, Wolfe Herd explained that the company had already been using AI to a certain degree, but now seeks to leverage it’s greater use; though she denied that Bumble would go as far as to create AI avatars for users to date and interact with, like so many other apps like Replika do.
“I think that’s where I’m spending a lot of my energy and time. I’m quite obsessed with AI at the moment,” Wolfe Herd said. She added, “I think this is something that is lost on the general public, maybe, because our matching algorithms are AI-driven. This is machine learning. This is how we understand relevance and compatibility,” she said…