Short answer: Arun Kalaiselvan says AI dating may help the first meet, but AI only knows your highlights, and the winners will capture more than that. Anand Chandrasekaran asks how true AI-written dating profiles will be.
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From Episode 24: This AI Fills Healthcare Shifts in Minutes, starting at 27:29.
Sam Nadler [27:29]: Jordan and I are no longer single. Maybe I don't know if you two are, but I thought this was an interesting article. Hinge CEO stepping down to launch Overtone, which I believe is from Match, the Match Group, to launch an AI dating app. I think it makes sense. This is eventually gonna AI is gonna, infiltrate the dating app world, but any thoughts here?
Arun Kalaiselvan [27:54]: It's funny we shouldn't we should be talking about dating because about fifteen years ago? Thirteen. Thirteen. Yeah. Thirteen years ago, Anand and I, we lived in New York. Went to NYU together. We worked basically at the same companies for a long time. We go way back. And one of our hackathon projects was a we call it e flirt engines. It was a matching engine for you would come in and answer a bunch of questions. You need to be on these dating services. So we actually know all of these folks pretty well. I think this is an interesting move, especially with the timing. On one hand, you have Mamdani who's all over the news as having met his wife on Hinge. Right? And, like, so Hinge is definitely getting a little push on the PR end from that side. But then this whole situation where oh, man. They I it was inevitable that this happens. I am surprised that it was match.com that started to overtone and not someone else. I would have assumed the folks at Bumble would be the ones doing it, but sounds like they are doing they have their own version of this coming as well.
Arun Kalaiselvan [29:05]: I think Justin is probably one of the best people to push this forward too, so this is a fantastic move on Match's part. What I don't know yet is how this is going to devolve into just matchmaking versus AI dating. Like, the are we having our AI personas date each other? And, like, how does that track to real world entities? And then how do you go from setting things up with AI to the real world? I think that's going to be the Bayesian. Maybe we don't. I don't know.
Anand Chandrasekaran [29:38]: Yeah. I think it's for me, right, like how the when AI was released by Google for photos, the question was, what does it mean to even take a photo? Right? That question is we if you go into Reddit, we still talk about it a lot. Same way, like, if people when they write their profile in a dating app, my single most important question is how true is that? And so is it how are they going to solve that problem? I mean, already, a lot of it is copy paste. But with AI, it is just the best tools to do that to make it sound nice. It might help a lot of people, but I'm I'm curious to see the interaction. I'm I was always sure that this was going to happen, so I'm not surprised. I'm I'm curious to see how this will work.
Arun Kalaiselvan [30:28]: I think this will be fantastic for the first meet, but AI only knows about your highlights. Right? Let's let's say if it says, oh, I'm gonna look at your Facebook and see everything that you've done and then you'll make your profile using that. That's all the highlights. But then, eventually, it's it's the midlights that matter for truly good relationships. And I think the people who will win are the ones who are able to somehow focus on that rather than just all of the highlights of a person.
Sam Nadler [30:58]: So it's not gonna capture that you snore and that you Right? Yeah.
Arun Kalaiselvan [31:03]: Like, you have a CPAP machine. Yeah. Exactly.
Jordan Metzner [31:06]: Alright. Let's move on.
