Your next Bumble match may be chosen by AI instead of your thumb

Bumble has a new AI assistant: a matchmaker named Bee. The dating app company recently revealed the new dating guru during its fourth-quarter earnings call, which was first reported by TechCrunch . Essentially, Bee’s job is to learn about what users want in a partner through initial private conversations and to help them find matches through Bumble’s new “Dates” tool. Bee’s job will eventually get bigger, too. She will help plan dates and even ask for (anonymous) feedback about those dates in the same way a close friend with inside information might offer. In addition to the new AI tool, Bumble will be moving away from swiping right (yes) or left (no) and into entirely new territory, with Bee leading the charge. In an interview with Axios , Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said that Bee’s introduction, along with the rest of the changes coming to the app, are due to the fact that users have simply outgrown swiping left or right. “Now, people are feeling exhausted. They’re feel