Andy Dunn’s new app Pie uses AI to help you make friends

“We’re far from the pants, Andy, the founder of the online fashion retailer Banobos, told TechCrunch.” Now, the former CEO is taking a completely different challenge: he wants to help people make friends.

Right’s new initiative, PileA social app that focuses on to unite people in real life.

With a .5 an increase in the 11.5 million series And the funds to pay the organizers to host the events, Pile Despite being available in San Francisco and Chicago, more than 1,5 has become active users. However, more users mean that the private events hosted through the app were getting even more crowded, it has become stronger to connect people.

The young company confronted a problem: If hundreds of people show an event how guests do you know who to talk to? How can they make friends when they are in a busy room, when surrounded by strangers?

“It’s the beauty of creating a startup,” said right. “A solution creates a problem.”

Fortunately, it was not very difficult to find a possible solution for this problem.

The organizer of two events in Pie was already working together to create a tool called Sparked Connections, it is an AI-driven quiz that tries to predict the best of people in a given social event. The pie is acquired by two founders Samiir Mahafzah and Sam Stabs and fold the quiz into some gathering, which is identified as “spread by pie”.

In Pie’s “Coffee with Stranger” event, for example, each person will take a short personality test, where respondents rated how much they agree with the feeling given on a scale of 1 to 5 Are you willing to leave stability to follow emotions? Do you believe in astrology? Do you pray? Do you vote? Do you have any toxic properties?

Before the event, the quiz’s algorithm divided the respondents into six groups, which is most likely based on AI. Then, these six people are kept in a group chat to get it, where they can get to know each other before the event.

“We’re starting to force it through it [ChatGPT]The And then when we connect with whom and who invites the people to the staff gets the feedback loops, we will start to see, well, why do people stop it? “Right.” And I think this is a dark art that except for the AI ​​reflection point I think it would be almost incredible problems. “

With growing Concern Around the level of loneliness in Americans, it may seem frustrating that we need algorithms to help us make friends. But if you have ever been connected to a new friend via Instagram or have dated someone of the Bamboo, you already allowed AI to enter your social life.