AMERICAN SURVEY CENTER – Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd explained "There is a world where your dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge[s] . . . and then you don't have to talk to 600 people," she said. It sounds utterly dystopian. AI chatbots chatting up other bots to forge connections for their human counterparts. Singles are pessimistic about dating life. Dating apps are accused of being part of the problem. There's a rising distrust between men and women: less patience and more risk aversion. Young women today expect young men to contribute in ways their fathers never did. Marriage is less of an immediate goal for many young people, and parenthood is more of an open question. A recent Pew poll found that young men are more interested in becoming parents than young women. A growing share of single young singles are deciding that romantic relationships or marriage might simply not be worth it.
by Daniel A. Cox
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Mark Brooks: The only way AI concierges would really work is if they were given inordinate access to users' other apps, comms, and behavioral data, to properly assess their character. Then, it could get quite interesting. Bumble, as a trusted brand, could be one of the few dating companies that could be granted enough access to be able to make this kind of feature fly. I don't buy that people really don't want romantic relationships. Homo sapiens need intimacy, love. I think we/they/he/she… are just less well-equipped and more distracted.