Paying $99 for that seems very.. inappropriate 😅Friends with benefits ?
Paying $99 for that seems very.. inappropriate 😅Friends with benefits ?
Has been for a while, glad you finally figured it out. 😊If this is where we are headed,
The Human Race is So Effed !!!
Thank you for this! Made my day! Now if Wilma Deering shows up at my house, I'll totally rethink my position on AI.A necklace AI that acts as your friend? I've seen this before, back in 1979:
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Thanks to Twiki wearing Dr. Theopolis, prior art has been established.
Also, if it takes off, the estate of Glen Larson should be raking in a lot of dough!
Doing the quick math, they got $1.9MM in Seed funding, and an additional $2.5MM on a $50MM valuation.This company spent most of its seed funding on…...
Their domain name.
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AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name
AI companion Friend appears to have spent most of its funds on buying friend.com.www.404media.co
It's not a scam, it's the founder (and his VCs) being deluded by current AI capabilities, and thinking that a rough idea already makes a working product.This seems like a scam to me. There is no product yet, but they spent $1.8MM on the friend.com domain, according to their CEO, on Twitter...
Looks fine to me. You're low on battery though.
Hate to break it to you, but yeah it’s LlamaThe ad is cringey and kinda tone-deaf and the form-factor is awkward. Beyond the wrist and the finger, people’s capacity to tolerate wearable tech falls off a cliff. I’m not sure an ugly statement necklace is the next big frontier. And I’m sure, like Rabbit, it’s just a cheap wrapper around Claude or ChatGPT or (shudder) Llama.
Schiffmann didn’t set out to just build a yes-man on a necklace. He said Friend is built on Meta’s new open source AI model Llama 3.1, which he calls “way better than any ChatGPT type of thing.”
This is the funniest thing I have read this week. Thank you MR!Friend is an AI necklace that is meant to serve as a personal companion, and in a video that could be the start to an episode of Black Mirror, it's shown providing support, encouragement, and companionship to the wearer.
If it's anything like most LLMs, I imagine its dialogue would get very repetitive after a while 😅 It's an interesting idea but the novelty would wear off after a few weeks..Friend is designed to be supportive, validating, and able to encourage ideas.
No one would spend $99 on an app, though. Same reason Rabbit R1 was $200 despite it being proven you could run the software on a bog-standard Android phone. It's much easier to get someone to spend $200 on $50 in hardware with a special app than just sell the app by itself.They could have just sold this as an app and then shipped a special lanyard for it to have your phone hanging around your neck.