{"id":94721,"date":"2019-08-13T05:03:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/ai-could-be-your-wingman-er-wingbot-on-your-next-first-date"},"modified":"2019-08-13T05:03:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:03:45","slug":"ai-could-be-your-wingman-er-wingbot-on-your-next-first-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/ai-could-be-your-wingman-er-wingbot-on-your-next-first-date","title":{"rendered":"AI could be your wingman\u2014er, wingbot\u2014on your next first date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EwaPP1H4At4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The art of matchmaking has traditionally been the province of grandmas and best friends, parents, and even\u2014sometimes\u2014complete strangers. Recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/f\/614058\/youre-not-imagining-it-always-checking-dating-apps-makes-you-feel-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they\u2019ve been replaced by swipes<\/a> and algorithms in an effort to automate the search for love. But Kevin Teman wants to take things one step further.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver-based founder of a startup called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimm.online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIMM<\/a> has built an app that matches prospective partners using just what they say to a British-accented AI. Users talk to the female-sounding software to complete a profile: pick out your dream home, declare whether you consider yourself a \u201ccat person,\u201d and describe how you would surprise a potential partner.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, that doesn\u2019t seem too different from the usual swiping-texting-dating formula of modern online romance. But AIMM, whose name is an acronym for \u201cartificially intelligent matchmaker,\u201d comes with a twist: the AI coaches users through a first phone call, gives advice for the first date, and even provides feedback afterwards. Call it <em>Cyrano de Bergerac<\/em> for the smartphone era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art of matchmaking has traditionally been the province of grandmas and best friends, parents, and even\u2014sometimes\u2014complete strangers. Recently they\u2019ve been replaced by swipes and algorithms in an effort to automate the search for love. But Kevin Teman wants to take things one step further. The Denver-based founder of a startup called AIMM has built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,41,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}