{"id":16916,"date":"2024-08-01T09:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:16:57","slug":"%e6%96%b0%e5%9e%8bai%e4%bc%b4%e4%be%a3%e8%ae%be%e5%a4%87friend%e5%88%a9%e7%94%a8%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e5%b8%ae%e5%8a%a9%e5%af%b9%e6%8a%97%e5%ad%a4%e7%8b%ac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/16916.html","title":{"rendered":"New AI companion device 'Friend' uses artificial intelligence to help fight loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Recently,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd%e7%a1%ac%e4%bb%b6\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Hardware<\/a>The area of entrepreneurship received considerable attention, although the performance of earlier products, such as Rabit and Humane, was mixed. In this heat, a new AI device called \u201cFriend\u201d attracted investor interest\u3002<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"96\">\u201cFriend\u201d was developed by Avi Schiffmann, a Harvard school dropout who had won the Weiby Prize for creating a COVID-19 tracking site. It's designed to be a user<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e4%bc%b4%e4%be%a3\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH [AI PARTNER] LABEL]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Companion<\/a>, connects to the mobile phone via Bluetooth and continuously monitors the user&#039;s voice to alleviate loneliness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pgc-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16917\" title=\"get-9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/get-9.jpg\" alt=\"get-9\" width=\"476\" height=\"529\" \/><\/div>\n<p data-track=\"97\">Source: Friend<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"98\">Shifman has raised $2.5 million from a number of prominent investors, with a company estimated at $50 million. Investors include such scientific and technological communities as Raymond Tonsing of Caffeinad Capital, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas.\u201d Friend plans to accept the booking at a cost of US$ 99 and is expected to deliver the shipment in January 2025\u3002<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"99\">Unlike other AI devices, \"Friend\" does not focus on increasing productivity, but rather on being an emotional toy. Users can talk to the device via the button to receive the response in the application. As a result of continuous listening, the equipment can also proactively send messages, such as good luck prior to interviews\u3002<\/p>\n<div class=\"pgc-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16918\" title=\"get-10\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/get-10.jpg\" alt=\"get-10\" width=\"675\" height=\"381\" \/><\/div>\n<p data-track=\"100\">Source: Friend<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"101\">In the view of Shifman, hardware forms provide better emotional connectivity for users than simple applications. He stressed that \u201cFriend\u201d was not designed as a therapist or a work assistant, but as an AI friend who could talk\u3002<\/p>\n<p data-track=\"102\">Despite the privacy concerns raised by the concept of \u201cFriend\u201d, Shifman indicated that the company would not store the recordings and that the user could remove the text records at any time. It remains to be seen whether the equipment will emerge from the competitive AI hardware market\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent past, artificial intelligence hardware has received considerable attention in the area of entrepreneurship, although the performance of earlier products such as Rabit and Humane has been mixed. In this heat, a new AI device called \u201cFriend\u201d attracted investor interest. \u201cFriend\u201d was developed by Avi Schiffmann, a Harvard school dropout who had won the Weiby Prize for creating a COVID-19 tracking site. This neck-wearing device is intended to be the user ' s AI partner, connects the phone through Bluetooth and continuously listens to the user ' s voice to alleviate the feeling of loneliness. Source: Friend Shifman has raised $2.5 million from a number of prominent investors, with a company valuation of 500<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[781,3815,2401],"collection":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ai","9":"tag-2401"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}