Finding a new place to eat with a friend or that special someone often requires a trawl through Google search results or Yelp reviews, but they’re not very good at knowing the types of restaurants you already like. Adding a touch of natural language recognition and artificial intelligence, Russia’s IO is an app that learns users’ preferences and chats with them to help them find restaurants nearby.
Users simply start by typing questions into IO, without having to fill out any preferences up front. IO will then begin to reply with an easy-to-understand answer in a friendly tone. Users can type as if they were speaking to a friend over text and IO will understand what they’re saying. When recommending a restaurant, the app brings up all of the relevent details — location, description, menu, prices, opening times and contact details.
AI restaurant guide makes friendly recommendations [Springwise]