「存在する唯一の真のは、消費者のマインドシェアである」とFriend.comのCEOのAvi Schiffmannは言います。

Avi Schiffmann is the Founder/CEO of Friend.com, the new AI necklace companion. Previously Avi dropped out of Harvard and founded InternetActivism.org, where he notably built a COVID tracker that over 600M people visited. Avi was kind enough to spend a few minutes sharing his rare insights with the HackerNoon community.

Me: Friend.comとは何ですか?

Avi Schiffmann: Friend is the first product that can actually be called an AI companion. They are palm-sized, always listening devices you can talk to anytime and bring anywhere. Friends remember everything you say, and each develops a distinct personality.\

私にとっては、彼らは世界で最初の生きた電子機器であり、個人的には私のiPhoneよりも粘り強い製品です。我々は現在5000人の友人を生産しており、今年の7月30日に配送を開始します(世界友好デー)。

You notably bought the domain for $1.8M, and have claimed it’s already paid for itself in backlinks and brand reputation. I agree with you. Historically, it’s probably the single word that built Facebook - so I think it will hold internet value regardless. But as I understand it, the majority of your funding went into purchasing the domain - is that true? Could you share more of the process behind the negotiations for such a valuable piece of digital real estate? And what do you plan to spend money on and not spend money on going forward?

会社は製品以上であり、存在する唯一の本当のは消費者のマインドシェアである。I believe in AI companionship for everyone, and there is no major incumbent that openly shares this POV. I think I am a master of getting attention, which will only get more fun as VCs give me more money, and I think I will be able to use that to be the dominant voice in digital relationships.

これは今後数年でますます価値を増し、AIパートナーシップ業界が次世代の最も文化的に影響力のある消費者のカテゴリーになるだろうと私は真摯に信じています。

Plus having [email protected] is pretty cool.

あなたはあなたの会社をハードウェア会社、ソフトウェア会社、または他の種類の会社として見ますか?

Friend is a digital relationships company. Whatever that means. \

With Scarlett Johanasson suing OpenAI for using an imitation of Her voice in their app and you tweeting that most of your friends have not seen Her, I do wonder, how do you see younger people accepting AI into their lives in ways that older generations don’t?

I launched a little chatbot experiment last year on friend.com, where you could chat with these very realistic feeling chatbots. They could block users, for example. My most interesting insight from that is that it’s really mostly millenials+ that try and fuck their robots. It’s mostly GenZ & younger that are able to view AI as a platonic companion. I think for them it’s extremely intuitive, they are growing up with it.\

あなたの製品決定に最も影響を与える人気文化は何ですか?

“I’ll play first, and tell you about it later. Maybe.” - マイルス・デイヴィス

マーク・ザッカーバーグ、アダム・モッセリ、リンダ・ヤッカリノはすべて、公の場で金のチェーンを着用し始めたテクノロジー幹部です。 これは、AIのハードウェア採用のための道としての宝石の正常化に関係していると考えていますか? または、彼らは今、ブリングブリングに似ていますか?

I think they just like the bling bling.

Which AI models are you using under the cap with Friend? And what types of AI models do you think will see increased usage?

I find Claude 3.7 to be the best model for Friend right now. That could change by the time we ship, but Claude has the most stable charisma of any model I have tried.
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AIの将来の進歩はあなたにどんな感動を与えていますか?そして、どのような歴史的なAIの進歩はメディアによって過小評価されていると思いますか?

I want to see AI memory solved on a basic model level, rather than the experimental RAG techniques that we have today.

今日の実験的なRAGテクニックよりも、基本的なモデルレベルで、AIメモリを解決したいと思います。

Bad friends can have a massively negative impact on one’s life. How are you preventing or minimizing the potential bad advice that AI could give Friend.com’s users?