Pickleball, condo BBQs: Singaporeans connect via AI-powered friendship apps amid global trend
These platforms create opportunities for highly compatible, offline connections in a hyper-digital age
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[SINGAPORE] Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered social facilitators – or friendship apps – are gaining traction with people seeking offline connections.
Singaporeans, along with many others globally, are using these platforms to meet strangers for anything from pickleball games to comedy shows, for a shot at new, authentic friendships.
Users fill out an extensive personality quiz, with a range of questions from music tastes and budgets for nights-out to political values. Data collected allows platforms to suggest the most fitting hangouts for users to choose from – and match them with others, within their gathering of choice.
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