Somewhere out there is a girl spamming the hell out of online dating services, looking for this dude. Let's hope when their bots meet, they're programmed to exchange numbers.
It's a nice example of looking for the keys under the light aka if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
A bit more interesting analogy would be the Big Data craze. We do them because we can.
Are the results produced by Big Data as relevant as the dating automation?
Do we understand and handle them as effectively as 150 dates with zero involvement?
And what do we miss instead? Whose time and place is taken by getting lost in superficial data oceans?
Actually, could be a nice quirky film - and profitable too. Romcoms are cheap to shoot. We're past peak American-romantic-comedy (I think) so the whole "ugh, not another one" factor might be actually pretty low in 2017. So yeah, could be pretty nice.
A bit more interesting analogy would be the Big Data craze. We do them because we can. Are the results produced by Big Data as relevant as the dating automation? Do we understand and handle them as effectively as 150 dates with zero involvement? And what do we miss instead? Whose time and place is taken by getting lost in superficial data oceans?