Do You Want an AI Friend?

There's a new AI gadget to discuss! This time it's a pendant called "Friend". Marques, Andrew, and David talk about

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[TyM]

Imagine someone steals it of your neck and the AI is crying in the texts to save it lol 😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[carloscervantes]

Lemme get this straight, company wants me to PAY THEM, to SPY ON ME???

[FaustoFonseca]

I don't need an AI friend.. I need an AI assistant that handles shit like todo, calendar, notes for me when I tell it to, so that I can have free time to be with my real friends!

[jaguar]

Talking to your belt buckle like Blankman is crazy work!! 😂😂

[tweegyblink]

It's impressive that they created an entire video just to show you how to save $99.

[fredbloggs]

If used by the socially vulnerable, and is hackable, the potential damage is ominous.

[isbestlizard]

Let's be honest, it wouldn't be a friend. It would be an informant. That reported every conversation and keyword you said to it's master, to better monetise your interests, sell you products for profit, and snitch on you to the authorities if you ever told it a secret that was wrongthink

[tubularap]

"Open the pod-bay door, HAL."

[amyandmax]

People worried about their phone listening to us all the time and they are about to put a pendent doing 24/7 surveillance 😂

[ryan.a]

they stole the open source project Friend, and their name! but no-one is talking about that

[Ray_Vun]

if someone told me that was a snl sketch i'd believe it

[StartupCaptain]

This looks like a modern version of the pet rock.
But it probably won't sell anywhere close to the pet rock.

[carloslfu]

AI startup idea: revive your loved one.

[Graybeard_]

AI friends will prove invaluable to the aging Baby-boomer generation. Prior to AI agents (friends) tens of thousands of elderly people lived alone with poor health and diet care, slowly declining in mental health due to loneliness. Many died due to neglect. AI friends will remind the elderly to take their medications, to go outside for fresh air/nature, monitor their vital signs and contact family members and healthcare providers. They will also ask questions, make uplifting comments, read them books, and make them laugh.

[maxxb]

The most hilarious thing was seeing a 24 min ad about the Rabbit R 1 updates before your vid 😅

[mikeg]

Ai therapy will be a new business model.

[dennismwebembezi]

So, in the event that your 'Friend' is stolen. Does it automatically become someone's friend or it keeps ghosting you without telling you where it currently is?

[Crysomandiaz]

Great. Now we are the tamagochi and the AI is checking in on us…

[Ricardo-bwru]

At first I thought it was dumb because of the use cases they show but now I’m sold because an AI to keep track of all the conversations I have through out the day while helping me sort through it all at the end of each day or week would be incredibly helpful. Specially since everything is stored locally.

[daledevernon]

Haven't these people learned this is just another pointless device that will end up in the bin together with the AI Rabbit and the humane pin.