It is an excellent piece, Sylvia. As an engineer I would apporach the match making with a similar process but as a person who married the one I loved, I would say the process would fail spectacularly.
The techbros have a problem. They think every process can be codified. Yes it may be, but the amount of variables involved makes it impossible to get a reliable output. Thus flights are made mostly successful but they still fail when edge cases happen.
Rather than creating these unpredictive algos both tech bros and sis should go out, travel and have dinners with each other. They will learn more about human connections that way. The butterfly effect can be useful if we trust that chaos will always exist and we need to ride on them and that is the only way to live and love.
Thanks so much. My articles to be published in April will revolve around the need for critical thinking in the age of misinformation and social media overload. I hope you like them just as much.
Our parents were our AI substitutes in matchmaking. They tried and used their intuitive and cultural algorithms and forced love on the prospective partners and we submitted. Our children now have asserted that butterflies don't listen to anyone. They flutter at their own will least of all in somebody's stomach.
According to Wikipedia, approximately 90% of marriages in India are still arranged. That is a huge number. All my roommates/ flatmates chose their own partner. So did few of my college/ university mates. I think they would have been in the minority- 10% of the population. Few of them had to battle parental opposition. All these love marriages are now 10-15+ years old and surviving. I think Indian parents should now trust their children's instincts and let them choose their own partners, especially if they are educated, employed and above 25 years old.
It is indeed silly of the parents to protest their adult children who independent as well in their choices. The other scenario is when the children refuse to choose and they are desperate for them to experience the marital bliss😁
Excellent topic to touch on. However, I don't believe so. Human emotions are too complex for AI to decipher in terms of finding your soulmate. Ai has yet to fully understand basic human interactions and through machine learning, has learned some facets of human emotions in order to understand and then learn to respond. I have seen and heard many AI experts talk on this and they take a nuanced approach to AI fully matching human emotions, lets stand finding a soulmate.
Yes, AI and its use cases make for some fascinating read.
Here is my take on whether AI can help someone find their soulmate- sharing an excerpt from my article:
IBM Watson could not predict the Weather - a deterministic non-linear system- in 2015. It is highly unlikely that AI can predict the course of Love - a non-deterministic non-linear system- in 2025.
AI can establish a Connection between a potential couple, it can check for Chemistry, and it can even assess Compatibility: but it can't make someone fall in love or guarantee that a relationship will endure forever. For Love is a curious cocktail of pheromones, oxytocin, and serendipity. Even the best Alchemist cannot concoct a love potion that induces ‘butterflies in the stomach’.
AI can get John Doe only a date. It cannot find him a Soulmate.
Because Love, like the Weather, can't be predicted.
It is an excellent piece, Sylvia. As an engineer I would apporach the match making with a similar process but as a person who married the one I loved, I would say the process would fail spectacularly.
The techbros have a problem. They think every process can be codified. Yes it may be, but the amount of variables involved makes it impossible to get a reliable output. Thus flights are made mostly successful but they still fail when edge cases happen.
Rather than creating these unpredictive algos both tech bros and sis should go out, travel and have dinners with each other. They will learn more about human connections that way. The butterfly effect can be useful if we trust that chaos will always exist and we need to ride on them and that is the only way to live and love.
Thanks so much. My articles to be published in April will revolve around the need for critical thinking in the age of misinformation and social media overload. I hope you like them just as much.
Our parents were our AI substitutes in matchmaking. They tried and used their intuitive and cultural algorithms and forced love on the prospective partners and we submitted. Our children now have asserted that butterflies don't listen to anyone. They flutter at their own will least of all in somebody's stomach.
According to Wikipedia, approximately 90% of marriages in India are still arranged. That is a huge number. All my roommates/ flatmates chose their own partner. So did few of my college/ university mates. I think they would have been in the minority- 10% of the population. Few of them had to battle parental opposition. All these love marriages are now 10-15+ years old and surviving. I think Indian parents should now trust their children's instincts and let them choose their own partners, especially if they are educated, employed and above 25 years old.
It is indeed silly of the parents to protest their adult children who independent as well in their choices. The other scenario is when the children refuse to choose and they are desperate for them to experience the marital bliss😁
Excellent topic to touch on. However, I don't believe so. Human emotions are too complex for AI to decipher in terms of finding your soulmate. Ai has yet to fully understand basic human interactions and through machine learning, has learned some facets of human emotions in order to understand and then learn to respond. I have seen and heard many AI experts talk on this and they take a nuanced approach to AI fully matching human emotions, lets stand finding a soulmate.
Thanks for reading.
Yes, AI and its use cases make for some fascinating read.
Here is my take on whether AI can help someone find their soulmate- sharing an excerpt from my article:
IBM Watson could not predict the Weather - a deterministic non-linear system- in 2015. It is highly unlikely that AI can predict the course of Love - a non-deterministic non-linear system- in 2025.
AI can establish a Connection between a potential couple, it can check for Chemistry, and it can even assess Compatibility: but it can't make someone fall in love or guarantee that a relationship will endure forever. For Love is a curious cocktail of pheromones, oxytocin, and serendipity. Even the best Alchemist cannot concoct a love potion that induces ‘butterflies in the stomach’.
AI can get John Doe only a date. It cannot find him a Soulmate.
Because Love, like the Weather, can't be predicted.
Love the compensation!
Thanks.