Lauren Woode: I also think if there is a bright place, it will probably be some of the programs that are very specific to people who help people check what they are looking for and find someone who is in line with what they want, or It is now someone who shares super niche interests or cultural values ​​or even disabilities, people who just like, “I have to find someone who actually understands it.” I think there are a lot of positive in dating apps for it.

Michael Calore: Yes. Another place where AI makes some interesting improvements to the app experience is through the game, which you basically give a smaller part of people for which you think you best fit. Instead of just showing you the old algorithm, there is this new algorithm that gives you a better choice, and it is very interesting. If so, I don’t think these things are going to prevent people from using the programs, and I don’t think they will necessarily make any of the other problems of the programs disappear, but it can lead to more meaningful connections that occur faster for people .

Lauren Woode: We’re going to leave it on a positive note, not guys? We are going to give all the people who are looking for love, something to hope.

Michael Calore: Embrace.

Lauren Woode: We are like, “Look, no one uses the programs anymore. Income is off, executive links, scams, spam, bots, but keep watching.”

Michael Calore: Buy the ticket, take the ride. Embrace the AI ​​matchmaker and the AI ​​-Chatbot. Let it do all the work for you. Okay, so to close us, let’s pretend to go back to IRL appointments and that we’re going to meet someone. What is the ideal place to meet someone?

Zoë Schiffer: I mean, I met my husband at a book club and I thought it was a good place.

Lauren Woode: It’s pretty good. Gosh, I don’t know. I would probably say a friend’s party or something. Or maybe something like a piano bar, and then you have to find out if the person is there because he is ironic or really piano.

Michael Calore: And probably both will be good, isn’t it?

Lauren Woode: Sure. Yes.

Michael Calore: You want the person who is really there, and you want the person who is there, ironically.

Lauren Woode: Yes.

Michael Calore: I would probably say the best place to meet someone is on a bike ride.

Lauren Woode: It is difficult to have the conversation.

Michael Calore: However, there are group rides.

Zoë Schiffer: Oh, right. And there is always coffee and baked goods afterwards.

Michael Calore: There is always coffee and pastries afterwards.

Zoë Schiffer: This is a good one.

Lauren Woode: I like it.

Michael Calore: No one said Instagram.

Lauren Woode: No. No one did it.

Michael Calore: In the DMS people it slides, it’s Valentine’s Day.

Lauren Woode: Looks like a good place to end it.

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