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Avi Schiffmann, who rose to fame when he created a popular COVID-tracking website at age 17, needed a friend when he was alone travelling in Japan. So he made one, and he's released it for the rest of the world to have one too. That is a little AI-generated necklace pendant called 'Friend' that sits right next to your heart listening to every word you have to say. The 'Friend', to be clear, is an AI wearable, AKA an AI chatbot that lives inside a pendant.
If you've never thought a real-life moment could be anything like Black Mirror, then think again, buddy: It's such a viscerally creepy idea that you might figure it has to be an attempt at social commentary, or some bullshit vaporware, or an online hoax, but then you realise Schiffmann bought the domain Friend.com for a whopping $1.8 million of his company's $2.5 million in seed money, so he's pretty serious.
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