I have included a spoiler tag, so the following will ruin the entire episode (for some).
'Hang the DJ' (not in love with the title), is a look into a dating app's algorithm.
We can assume that real-world participants provide the app with a ton of personal information. So much info (perhaps even access to their social media accounts, emails, etc) that the app builds a near duplicate virtual - psychologically consistent - clone of the participants inside their system.
They use these AI-driven clones to run simulations. When the system's simulation indicate a 99.8% match (ie, 998 successes out of 1,000 simulations), they match the compatible pair in the real world. This was the bar scene at the very end of the episode.
The episode is a detailed look into just one of these many simulations.
Before the reveal, I thought this was the showrunner's attempt at a true love story. Some reviews seem to indicate that this was a true love story, love conquering all, etc. It was not.
A "True Love" story was kinda' shot down when the pair was involved in so many sexual encounters and long-term relationships - so soon after having met. I was happy that this was not an attempt at that. It would have been worse than what Hollywood normally does: two people meet, 10 minutes later they end up in bed. I would have given the episode 1 star.
It turned out to be a single simulation. Right before the bar scene, we see hundreds of the same couple (with different scores or percentages). This was a representation of the entire 1,000 simulation run.
The episode's final minutes has the couple actually meeting for the very first time at the bar - in real life. Their chance at hitting it off... 99.8%
'Hang the DJ' (not in love with the title), is a look into a dating app's algorithm.
We can assume that real-world participants provide the app with a ton of personal information. So much info (perhaps even access to their social media accounts, emails, etc) that the app builds a near duplicate virtual - psychologically consistent - clone of the participants inside their system.
They use these AI-driven clones to run simulations. When the system's simulation indicate a 99.8% match (ie, 998 successes out of 1,000 simulations), they match the compatible pair in the real world. This was the bar scene at the very end of the episode.
The episode is a detailed look into just one of these many simulations.
Before the reveal, I thought this was the showrunner's attempt at a true love story. Some reviews seem to indicate that this was a true love story, love conquering all, etc. It was not.
A "True Love" story was kinda' shot down when the pair was involved in so many sexual encounters and long-term relationships - so soon after having met. I was happy that this was not an attempt at that. It would have been worse than what Hollywood normally does: two people meet, 10 minutes later they end up in bed. I would have given the episode 1 star.
It turned out to be a single simulation. Right before the bar scene, we see hundreds of the same couple (with different scores or percentages). This was a representation of the entire 1,000 simulation run.
The episode's final minutes has the couple actually meeting for the very first time at the bar - in real life. Their chance at hitting it off... 99.8%