Artificial intelligence breaks the code to true love - DTU

Right from old-fashioned matchmaking to modern dating services, romantic matchmakers have focused on what singles themselves desired when they assisted them in the hunt for their soulmate. In other words, there has been nothing decisively new under the sun for several hundred years. At the request of DR3, researchers at DTU Compute have developed a self-learning algorithm and sent it in search of the recipe for a good relationship. "The algorithm receives a huge amount of information about each individual person in each of the 667 relationships, for example about food and transport habits, childhood town, height, number of brothers and sisters, pets, consumption patterns, and much more--including things that are not normally regarded as relevant to our choice of partner. The algorithm then looks for a pattern in the relationship based on the information. In this way, the algorithm itself learns what the ingredients in a stable relationship are, and how they are to be mixed," explains the creator of the algorithm, Professor Jan Larsen from DTU Compute.