WallY is only behavioural recommender system and NOT AI

http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/online-dating-website-sentimentecom-launches-personalized-dashboard-using-wally---artificial-intelligence-for-real-love-665429653.html

 Sentimente, one of the most important players on the online dating market in South-Eastern Europe, launched in mid-November a new version of the platform, based on Artificial Intelligence.

Please do not mistake "artificial intelligence" with
  a behavioural recommender system 

Same as 

Tinder "Super Likeable" feature uses AI to figure out who you're likely to Super Like.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/12/tinder-super-likeable-feature-uses-ai.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/vator-article-machine-learning-enters.html

ZOOSK SmartPick (formerly known as Zoosk's Scientific Matchmaking Service (ZSMS) )
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/zoosk-smartpick-formerly-known-as.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/the-match-team-is-working-on-artificial.html

is only a Behavioural Recommender System like Synapse from Match or UltraMatch from PlentyOfFish (POF) and Behavioural Recommender Systems CAN NOT outperform compatibility matching engines based on personality similarity.

Compare to: Badoo built its own big-data analytics platform
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/badoo-built-its-own-big-data-analytics.html

 
Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/09/online-dating-pioneer-algorithmic.html
Dr. Galen Buckwalter talks about the HEXACO model of personality (BIG FIVE, or OCEAN is obsolete now)
article: Why Brands Need to Understand Personalities in Order to Leverage AI’s Potential
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/article-why-brands-need-to-understand.html
AI, former eHarmony's Chief Scientist and PsyML (machine learning and big data)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/ai-former-eharmonys-chief-scientist-and.html
Soulmates.ai launches to help brands find compatible influencers using AI
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/soulmatesai-launches-to-help-brands.html

 
They call AI to any stupid recommender system that learns your preference.


PAPER: An Efficient Similarity Measure for User-based
Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems Inspired by the Physical Resonance Principle
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/12/paper-efficient-similarity-measure-for.html
Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
 


 

Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?

NEW AND FRESH PAPER!

"Posing personality: Is it possible to enact the Big Five traits in photographs?"


Abstract: Person perception research has focused on the accuracy of observers receiving truthful target information; however, in real life people may often wish to manage the impression that they convey. We investigated whether people can "pose personality" in photographs. Sixty target participants posed each in 10 photographs in which they sought to express the high and low poles of the Big Five traits by means of physical appearances. Observers (N=401) rated targets' personality and likability from each photograph. The results showed that targets successfully posed as Extravert and, to lesser extent, as Introvert, Neurotic, Non-Conscientious, and Open, and that targets could not convey impressions of high and low Agreeableness.

People often wish to adjust and control the image that they convey to others, but this tendency has received relatively little attention in the literature. Given the hugely increased possibilities for connecting with others online, the present findings according to which people are, in portrait photographs, able to "fake" some of their personality characteristics (e.g., high Extraversion, high Openness), but not others (e.g., high Agreeableness) are important.

This paper is a BIG PUNCH to online dating sites offering Personality Traits analysis based on facial features (like  Soul2Match, FindYourFaceMate, FaceReader from Profiler1) helping to detect levels of soulmate love and friendship like the Digital Physiognomy software.
BIG PUNCH also to speeddating events.

AND
BIG PUNCH also to Behavioural Recommender Systems / Recommendation Engines for Online Dating sites.

NO INNOVATIONS SINCE YEARS IN THE ONLINE DATING INDUSTRY.

C level executives do not  pay attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

The ineffectiveness of

The ineffectiveness of speed dating and why you should not pay for a dating service

I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

ONLY ONE ROAD TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIONS  
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

PlentyOfFish evolution

PlentyOfFish was born free from its genesis (ads supported + commissions earned by sending prospective customers to paid online dating sites, its motto was "This is a 100% Free Dating Service - No Charges Ever", "Put Away Your Credit Card"); then it morphed to a paid site.

The first paid proposal (March 2009) was the "Serious Member Badge". Prospective customers should had passed a Sincerity and Integrity Test before they were allowed to acquire that proposal. It performed as a virtual gift for yourself, a virtual gold medal saying “Serious Member”.


The second and actual paid proposal (August 2011) is different from the first one. It includes a "home grown" compatibility matching system called UltraMatch; a Behavioural Recommendation Engine.
That exclusive feature is only available to users with an upgraded membership, who could discover their most compatible matches on PlentyOfFish.

As one PlentyOfFish member had said in the forums "we don't even know what's in the "regular matches" formula (beyond age/height/child status/smoking/distance variables) much less the "Ultra Matches" formula to know if PAYING to upgrade to "Ultra Matches" is even worth it."

The effectiveness/efficiency level of Behavioural Matching Algorithms are less than 10%!!!
They cannot break ...... The Online Dating Sound Barrier.

PlentyOfFish is NOW a paid online dating site!!!

PlentyOfFish has introduced some changes recently including some new designs and features.

* PlentyOfFish redirects to POF
* Online IM chat which also has the capability of video chat!
* The paid membership plans.
PRICES:
1 year at USD6.78/month (USD81.40)
6 months at USD8.50/month (USD51.00)
3 months at USD11.80/month (USD35.40)

in order to use UltraMatch, PlentyOfFish's newest and most advanced Behavioural Matchmaking System!
* With the upgrade you will have the Badoo_like improvement in your profile rankings within searches.

PlentyOfFish is NOW a paid online dating site.

Behavioural Recommender Systems RUBBISH

Behavioural Recommender Systems RUBBISH

It is really funny how those "important persons" from big Online Dating Sites can waste precious time with Behavioural Recommender Systems, improving them, "refining" those Behavioural Matching Algorithms, which are all rubbish.
The effectiveness/efficiency level of those Behavioural Matching Algorithms are less than 10%!!!

Free online dating sites like PlentyOfFish and OkCupid can not be successful because they are only marketing tools to send users to paid online dating sites. To be profitable, they need the commissions paid bay those paid online dating sites

Paid online dating sites like eHarmony, Meetic, Match, Chemistry, etc, can not be successful because they have high acquisition costs, they can not abandon the attracting, converting and retaining marketing stages; the automatic renewal of their members's subscriptions with dirty credit-card billing trickery.

Big online dating sites DO NOT WANT TO INNOVATE.

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with a low effectiveness/efficiency level of their matching algorithms (less than 10%) There is a range convergence phenomenon between the 3 mains tools online dating sites offer now: Searching by your own, Recommendation Engines and Compatibility Matching Methods based on proprietary models or the Big5. Any member receives on average 3 to 4 prospective mates as selected / recommended / compatible for dating purposes per 1,000 members screened in the database.
They all 3 are performing the same for serious daters, with a high percentage of false positives, like gun machines firing flowers.

See these infographics from a white label service

Would  you be flying with an airline that had a 80% failure rate?


The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users.
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life.
III) Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.

Also Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform FAR better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences)
That is the only way to improve recommender systems, to include the personality traits
of their users and they need to calculate personality similarity between them.

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar test) to assess personality of its members.
Without offering the 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.