Quote: (12-15-2017 06:46 PM)Cane Toad Wrote:
The AI thing is also very interesting. Can an algorithm solve all our problems? I'm thinking it probably could do a good job of finding a suitable match. Not like some dumb question list on a dating site, but using "machine learning" it could learn our preferences over time and eventually perfect its decisions.
Exactly. You can see little hints of this all over the place. What's an ELO score on Tinder, for instance? How about a targeted ad that reflects your recent browsing history? A recommended product on Amazon? Human behavior is being recorded, quantified, analyzed, and used to herd us into various behaviors. I don't mean that in a conspiratorial way as much as it's something all of us should just accept as the new normal and learn to use it to our advantage rather than it just using us.
Even if you do cold approach, wouldn't you appreciate having a digital wingman?
It could be like the AI in the new Spiderman's smart-suit that Tony Stark gave him. Then instead of doing 100 approaches to net one bang maybe you would only have to do 10. Wouldn't that be worth it to save the time and stings of rejection?
Quote: (12-15-2017 06:46 PM)Cane Toad Wrote:
Good luck getting any AI to understand that mess.
That's just the thing. Data is data.
You're telling me people here don't already do this???
Why all the advice to go tour FSU countries or SE Asia?
People always want to improve their odds somehow. Rather than relying on anecdotal word of mouth and stereotypes, why not use
actual data?
For instance, Makeapp seems like a toy, but it uses machine-learning also. And that class of digital image manipulation is also responsible for this:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...ke-ai-porn
Read this article. Porn stars are actually getting triggered over this (cue hamster wheel).
So you're telling me an algorithm can't crunch through terabytes of dating profile images and reliably estimate SMV? It can be done, and once that's done, that alone could save tons of time doing the initial filtering based on women's appearance.
Arthur C Clarke famously said that
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I don't really understand how these algorithms pull these tricks off, but they do. What makes you think they couldn't tease out a useful pattern in the entirety of scraped OK Cupid and POF profiles? I don't see this as high-tech vs. pickup artistry as much as just an overall success enhancer.
OK Cupid already runs a blog where it tries to do this, but it is doing it through classic statistical modeling. Machine-learning doesn't work that way. It's more like intuition informed through trial-and-error, not unlike what a guy learns by doing his proverbial 100 cold approaches. Remember that the rules of the game of Go were too complicated for a computer to master, but it did. I just don't think the sexual marketplace is so impossibly complex that an algorithm can't find the quickest route between two paths.
Even swipers suck because they require that we spend the 0.25 seconds (or more if we read the bio) to decide whether to swipe left or right. It doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. Then you get to text chats. Read through some of the threads here that talk about text game. When you first break the ice it is
totally analogous to opening moves of chess. In chess, the opening moves start out very rote and unoriginal. Moving the central pawns forward is equivalent to "hey there". Then it expands out into trying to position your moves for maximum strength. Then you start your attack. Conceptually people here know this and there are theories on how to handle every aspect of it. Why can't an algorithm figure it out and manage the interaction like a bot? And I mean
really manage it and not just send bullshit messages that are no better than old IRC chatbots from 20 years ago.
I really think that's where things are headed. Before we have full on sexbots we're going to have these digital matchmaker agents that will handle the most time-consuming fishing and icebreaking operations. When we do wind up getting involved it will be for actual dates and the women that are guaranteed to meet our minimum criteria. And odds are we will probably work with them through Alexa like natural language processing.
So it will be like the movie Her only the AI won't be truly sentient, only convincing enough to fool the other side during the inane icebreaker banter.
I feel like I should form a stealth-mode startup and do some R&D, although I don't personally have the comp-sci background to do the coding myself, but it probably wouldn't take long to find some people interested in brainstorming.
Oh, and about horsepower. You want horsepower? How about quantum computing? It's coming sooner than you think.
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines...licon-chip