I let an AI avatar set me up on a date – here’s what happened

On an otherwise ordinary night in late October, I went on my second dating app date ever. Before you ask, no, it wasn’t from Hinge. Nor was it from Tinder (scarred from college) or Raya (too many creative directors). The orchestrator of my date was Amata, a new AI-powered dating app that, following its release in Australia, has recently launched in New York.

In an era where seemingly everything is described as AI-powered, it’s easy to scoff at that descriptor.hellip;

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