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-====== CHOICE: the idea ======
-Here I am spelling out the basic concept of CHOICE, to help the reader's orientation. For a fuller picture go to the [[index]].
-CHOICE is a uniquely different approach to enabling people to find other people, particularly those they don't know yet, or don't know well. It doesn't assume that people know either exactly what they want, or what is available. The requirements of both sides are taken into account simultaneously, so the only people that you ever find will be those who are at the same time looking for someone like you.
-CHOICE promised vastly improved efficiency. It will guide people to answer just those questions that are important to the others they are looking for. People are never asked anything that doesn't matter, so they get the best results for the least difficulty. This is the golden mean between too few and too many questions.
-The vision includes a radical improvement in both dating and recruitment. But even more importantly, it will open up the possibility of connection between people for other motivations: people to share living spaces; people to do small jobs for you; people to start a new venture, or village with.
-Some people think this can be done cleverly with AI tools. Having over 35 years worth((My [[https://www.simongrant.org/pubs/thesis/content.html|PhD]] studies, from 1987 to 1990, were done in the context of the [[wp>Turing Institute]] as it was, and I had some guidance and much conversation with [[wp>Donald Michie]].)) of knowledge of the principles of AI, I remain firmly in disagreement. Good luck to those who want to apply AI tools here – you will have lots of competition in a crowded field –  but my approach here will use AI only peripherally, and seems likely to remain unique.
-The idea came up originally in late 1992. I described it as an acronym for “Common Human Online Information Correspondence Enquiry”.
-  * It is relevant to all common humans, not special ones.
-  * It is done interactively online – that is a given now, but back then it seemed quite unusual.
-  * The information managed by the system is, on the one hand, about the attributes of humans (individually or in organisations), and on the other hand, their desires, wants, needs.
-  * The system looks for correspondence, both ways, between the information about and requirements of each party
-  * Enquiries are managed so that all parties are guided to find the closest that is available to what they want.
-However, it has been beyond my capabilities to build such a system. I have thought it through at many levels, but need some people to share the idea with, perhaps to mix with their own.
-If you know of anyone who could be interested, please let me and them know.
-=== see also ===
-  * [[ReGenMatch USPs]] focuses on on spelling out what is unique about this approach.
-  * [[How CHOICE works]] is a short explanation from another perspective, more of the technology.
-===== Commentary =====
-=== backlinks ===
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