Te AI-mo Love across language barriers has a mixed track record of success — but in the case of one AI-assisted couple, the fires of love are still burning strong. As the New York Times reports, a couple who met through a mutual friend’s idea to set them up on a blind date, and who currently live on either side of the US-Mexico border, have for months used various AI tools to help them bright the gap between English and Spanish. On their first date, which took place at the Mexicali, Mexico Applebee’s where Brenda Ochoa works, the woman and her paramour, LeRoy Romero, used translator apps like Google Translate to communicate. They shared a margarita and, as Romero told the NYT, didn’t engage in the usual first-date small talk due to the language difference. “I felt it was nice,” the 45-year-old Arizona resident said, “without all the useless chatter.” After going back home to Arizona, Romero realized that Captions, an app he uses for work, could help him in his personal life too. Along with being able to create and edit videos with, you guessed it, custom captions, the app also has pretty impressive lip-dubbing translation capabilities. Specifically, Captions’ powerful translation AI, which is also available as a standalone app called “Lipdub,” can mimic users’ natural voices and lip movements when translating their videos into other languages. Although similar technologies are very worrisome in other contexts, this one has apparently done wonders for Ochoa and Romero’s relationship. Old Fashioned Just a…Lovers Who Can Only Communicate Through AI Get Engaged