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The Friend is an AI chatbot that lives inside the pendant on a pendant.
It communicates using text messages and push notifications on the phone it’s paired to.
The Friend has an onboard microphone that listens to everything happening around the wearer by default.
The device is available for preorder now from Friend.com (a domain Schiffmann paid $1.8 million for).
Avi Schiffmann is launching himself into the AI-o-sphere.
The 21-year-old created the first website for tracking Covid cases at the height of the Covid pandemic.
Schiffmann's Friend is a fundamentally new form of digital companion, he acknowledges that it is also an amalgamation of many things.
Schiffmann knows that criticism is coming, but he's looking forward to it.
Schiffmann: "I think in some ways, this actually kind of turns the world into a theme park.” Schiffmann says he's ready for the backlash.
He squeezes the pendant pendant and asks it how the interview went.
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