This is the Guardian. Last week the founder and executive chair of the dating at Bumble,

Whitney Wolf Heard, gave us an intriguing vision of the future of dating.

You could in the near future be talking to your AI dating concierge and you could share your insecurities. I just came out of a breakup.

I have commitment issues and then it could give you productive tips for communicating with other people.

Talking at a Bloomberg conference,

she had some thoughts on how tech could help us find love.

There is a world where your dating concierge

could go and date for you with other dating concierge could go and date for you with other dating concierge.

No, no, truly.

And then you don't have to talk to 600 people.

It will just scan all of San Francisco for you,

say these are the three people you really ought to meet.

Whether that sounds like utopia or dystopia

will probably depend on your temperament.

But the truth is no one, not AI, not algorithms, not even scientists, really understand what makes two people fall for each other, or what makes a couple stick together?

So today we're asking, Can science tell us anything about how to meet the one?

And could having your first date in a lab help scientists finally

pin down what makes a relationship go the distance. From the Guardian I'm Madeline Finley and this is Science Weekly.

There's an app out there now. It'll take your picture and apparently it can determine from your picture your personality and give you a percent compatibility score with someone else.

That's Amy Gordon, assistant professor of psychology at the

University of Michigan. She studies the science behind relationships and has

recently become interested in how technology could change our approach to dating.

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