Tinder bot: Vancouver developer automates date selection, introduction on popular social app

'Hello, this is a Tinder robot. Would you like to meet for a romantic candlelit date?' Robots clean our floors, mow our lawns and (at least in Japan) check you into hotel rooms and carry your luggage. So why not turn over that pesky problem of setting up a date to a bot? Vancouver developer and Tinder user Justin Long did just that, creating software that puts the popular dating app Tinder on auto pilot. Tired of the time he spent swiping right and left to say yes or no on the popular app, Long combined facial recognition and artificial intelligence to let his bot – dubbed Tinderbox – prescreen potential dating partners.