Arthur Brooks suggests that human relationships are like cats but tech is serving us up toasters. The algorithms used in dating apps work by trying to get the highest percentage of matching information between two profiles, and while this may seem like it might create some good matches, human love is much more complex than that. As Arthur Brooks observes, “Tech tends to take complex problems like human love and treat it as if it were a complicated problem of trying to solve a bunch of math. And it just doesn’t work that way.” As humans, the connections we make with others are based on many different factors, and it doesn’t always have to be what we have in common. Humans are complex, and we need people whose personalities complement ours rather than mimic them. No one wants to date themselves, which is why they are trying to find someone on these apps. The “toaster” matches that dating apps offer are not the kinds of complex “cat-like” relationships humans really need.