Meet the World's First AI Best Friend (Wear It Around Your Neck)

A new AI companion device called "Friend" is aiming to revolutionize personal connections by offering constant companionship and support. This wearable AI, designed as a glowing orb, communicates through text messages, providing a more intimate alternative to traditional AI assistants. "Friend" seeks to redefine digital relationships by offering a continuous and emotionally supportive presence in users' lives.

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[electronicart]

"it's always listening" totally not creepy

[vtorialyn]

Hopefully, if it’s listening all the time, what if you were attacked and screaming for help, would it automatically call 911 on your phone? That would be wonderful if it did.

[johnwilliams]

Tech bro gimmick fashion will be a fun documentary in 20 years.

[johnkelleher]

I'd like to see the device capable of real-time assistance for the elderly and those experiencing cognitive decline. Instant name recollection, book and movie titles, the usual potholes in human conversation could all be papered over by Friend with access to a personal database. Friend would become my BF.

[gumbowumbo]

Capitalizing off of loneliness I like it 😂

[Sci-Que]

I wonder how hard it could be to make this device also work as a medical monitoring device.

[itsjustme]

The whole “ai friend” is creepy and cringey. How about talking to a person.

[StealHrtVideo]

This is ridiculous it's a simple Bluetooth microphone connected to a app on your phone which will run locally a large language model in about two gigabytes of ram so almost any smartphone or any smartphone on the market right now would be able to process and run it with no problem and he's going to charge $99 for something that probably doesn't take less than five bucks to make wish I had the idea first

[raaaainbowical]

This feels like a black mirror episode or a science fiction film

[danielbetancur]

If you wear this, I'm bullying you.

[atticproject]

Apple will have a Friend like APP for iwatch 😅

[naonispark]

This project is 100% plagiarism: functionality, design and even the name entirely copied

[Mikey-YF]

Friend AI sounds like the start of a horror movie!

[riccardourbani]

This is a gadget only a desperate and very depressed person would buy…

[JadeAnnabelArt]

It's literally a Black Mirror episode.

[williamsaltsman]

I kinda like the idea, but the saddest thing is it's one more thing to pull people that much more away from each other. Especially for those who find it difficult to next to impossible to get close to people. Although it just might prevent a suicide. Just sayin

[emmahill]

How will he address the potential privacy violations from a ambient microphone happening to record bystanders or other people in a room? Also, where is the audio recording stored? Who will be able to access the audio recordings?

[opseraph]

Once humanity gives up all human interaction and skynet is launched. Who controls the ai?

[MM]

This might be good for my son with Autism

[calvingrondahl]

Friend? Like a Mormon Seer Stone to talk to God?