Although the dating web sites, I’m sure, have accumulated a lot of data about people looking for dates, I doubt any of them have taken the trouble to collect accurate information on how well the dates turned out especially when the criterion for success is whether the date leads to a long-term relationship.
So (at least if you want to help those looking for long-term relationships) you can’t just buy the data you’d need to train the AI from an existing dating site: you’d need to collect it yourself and ensure it is accurate, which is expensive.
Contrast that situation to the situation of training an AI to play chess: it is easy to program a computer to determine with 100% accuracy which opponent won a chess game, which keeps down the cost of training.
No yeah, you would probably need to collect the data yourself. But that should not be that hard. Do you think AI would currently be capable of actually matching people correctly, given the right data?
The dating sites actively do not want to know about outcomes because some of the outcomes will be rapes, and the sites wants to be able to claim that they had no way to know about any rapes. Some of the victims of serial rapist Dr Stephen Matthews for example are currently suing a dating site. So, no, it is not easy to collect the data.
Here is the (long) video by which I learned about that law suit. Sadly, there is no way for me to include a Youtube URL in a LW comment without the URL’s “helpfully” getting replaced by a large image that is about 300 times more visually salient than anything else on the page, and I hate when that happens, so I’m going to give only the part of the URL after the domain name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIn_NUZZOA
Note: Just press CTRL+Z after the auto-embed happens, and you should be left with just the Youtube URL. I edited your comment to include the full URL like that.
I believe, the fact that they might not want to know the outcomes, due to potentially complex legal procedures the effort they would have to exert to protect users better doesn’t make it hard, it makes the companies selfish.
Looking the other way and claiming ignorance because you don’t want to deal with the legal implications of your product potentially causing harm is really horrible.
Although the dating web sites, I’m sure, have accumulated a lot of data about people looking for dates, I doubt any of them have taken the trouble to collect accurate information on how well the dates turned out especially when the criterion for success is whether the date leads to a long-term relationship.
So (at least if you want to help those looking for long-term relationships) you can’t just buy the data you’d need to train the AI from an existing dating site: you’d need to collect it yourself and ensure it is accurate, which is expensive.
Contrast that situation to the situation of training an AI to play chess: it is easy to program a computer to determine with 100% accuracy which opponent won a chess game, which keeps down the cost of training.
No yeah, you would probably need to collect the data yourself. But that should not be that hard. Do you think AI would currently be capable of actually matching people correctly, given the right data?
The dating sites actively do not want to know about outcomes because some of the outcomes will be rapes, and the sites wants to be able to claim that they had no way to know about any rapes. Some of the victims of serial rapist Dr Stephen Matthews for example are currently suing a dating site. So, no, it is not easy to collect the data.
Here is the (long) video by which I learned about that law suit. Sadly, there is no way for me to include a Youtube URL in a LW comment without the URL’s “helpfully” getting replaced by a large image that is about 300 times more visually salient than anything else on the page, and I hate when that happens, so I’m going to give only the part of the URL after the domain name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqIn_NUZZOA
Note: Just press CTRL+Z after the auto-embed happens, and you should be left with just the Youtube URL. I edited your comment to include the full URL like that.
Thanks.
I believe, the fact that they might not want to know the outcomes, due to potentially complex legal procedures the effort they would have to exert to protect users better doesn’t make it hard, it makes the companies selfish.
Looking the other way and claiming ignorance because you don’t want to deal with the legal implications of your product potentially causing harm is really horrible.
EDIT: Happy to hear the disagreements here.