AI初创公司推出99美元的“朋友”项链,扬起眉毛和250万美元

币界网Published on 2024-07-31Last updated on 2024-07-31

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还记得90年代千禧一代粘在小屏幕上的口袋大小的虚拟宠物Tamagotchis吗?好吧,他们回来了——有点。一家名为My TabAl,股份有限公司的加州初创公司以180万美元的价格收购了friend.com域名,以进入迅速发展的虚拟好友市场:一条价值99美元的AI电源项链,被称为“朋友”(是的,小写)。

该设备预计将于明年初发货。从本周开始上网的信息和视频来看,“朋友”项链本质上是你戴在脖子上的ChatGPT包装。它总是等着你和它说话,听你的每一个字,即使你在和别人说话——这样它就可以给你带来美好的信息和可爱的回应——书面的,而不是口头的。把它想象成一个可以哭泣的数字肩膀,没有机器人手臂来拍拍你的背。

几乎不用说,几乎每个写或发推特谈论该设备的人都在将其宣传视频与反乌托邦系列《黑镜》进行比较。

也就是说,这位哈佛辍学生Avi Schiffmann的“朋友”已经设法吸引了250万美元的投资者。对于一款能够。。。好吧,除了听你的谈话,偶尔主动权衡一下你说的话,没什么别的。

支持者名单读起来就像科技和媒体的名人录:Caffened Capital的Raymond Tonsing、Z Fellows创始人Cory Levy、Perplexity首席执行官Aravind Srinivas、Solana创始人Anatoly Yakovenko和Raj Gokal、Morning Brew的Austin Rief,甚至谷歌高级产品经理Logan Kilpatrick。

根据Schiffmann的说法,“朋友”项链是为了对抗孤独。它通过蓝牙连接到您的手机,并在有话要说时给您发短信。如果你需要打气或只是一些陪伴,你可以按下设备上的对讲机按钮,尽情地倾诉然后,朋友会在你手机的配套应用程序中发送一条短信。

这就是它变得有点…令人不安的地方。因为“朋友”总是在倾听,根据其服务条款和隐私条款,它会收集你给它的任何信息,如姓名、账单地址、电子邮件地址和电话号码。所以,也许这就像有一个为中央情报局工作的过度依恋、跟踪的朋友?它还可以发送未经提示的消息。想象一下,突然收到一条“祝你面试顺利!”的短信,或者“她永远不会选你的。”甜蜜还是令人毛骨悚然?由你决定。

Schiffmann没有立即回应Decrypt的置评请求,但他坚称这并不是为了取代人际交往或充当治疗师。他告诉TechCrunch:“我真的会把这个产品看作一个情感玩具。”。“有了硬件,我相信这是一种更好的情感联系。”

在人工智能可穿戴领域,“朋友”项链并不孤单(兔子和人道已经发布了类似的设备),它甚至不是第一个“朋友”。一家名为Based Hardware的公司已经以69美元的价格推出了自己的“朋友”人工智能项链。这款开源可穿戴设备附带了一个开发工具包,允许第三方添加功能,这可能使它不仅仅是一个字符串上的美化聊天机器人。

Based的创始人对不友好的竞争并不太满意。在一个读起来像硅谷粉丝小说的转折中,这位开发商放弃了一条直接针对希夫曼的diss轨道,甚至挑战他进行身体对抗。谁知道人工智能友谊会如此好斗?

对于那些在家里记分的人来说,这不是Schiffmann第一次用人工智能产品进行牛仔竞技表演。去年,他筹集了190万美元,推出了一款名为Tabs的600美元吊坠,用于跟踪人员和转录会议。由于“隐私问题”,该项目并没有真正成功,现在预购客户可以选择切换到“朋友”或获得退款。

当然,有如此多的资金投入到人工智能伙伴身上,以至于两位首席执行官之间的拳击比赛并不是一个完全疯狂的想法。

人工智能分析网站What's the Big Data在5月份的一份报告中表示:“2022年,全球对人工智能伴侣行业的资助达到了2.99亿美元的里程碑,比前一年2021年的仅700万美元有了显著增长。全球人工智能女朋友市场的价值为28亿美元,预计到2028年将达到95亿美元。”

人们的朋友比情人多,所以你要计算一下。

如果你不认为在脖子上戴一个物理设备的想法比手机上的另一个应用程序更能建立更强烈的情感联系,你可能想试试我们自己的只是为了好玩的人工智能伴侣,它也能做同样的事情。按下按钮,与它对话,得到一个无用但很好的文本格式响应。我们将其命名为fRiEnD GPT,它是免费的。或者更好的是,买一个电子鸡。

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