Coincidence with Based Hardware's Friend name? https://basedhardware.com/
No it's a conscious and laughable attempt of theft
It's actually the complete opposite: https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1818460679680278709
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#32On one hand, I'm hesitant to underrate another person's effort, knowing that months of effort went into this. on the other, I don't see this gadget producing the level of synchrony needed to maintain real-time convos.
Not all effort is worthwhile. I have to assume someone tried to bring it up and was silenced, or there was a culture where no negativity was allowed, letting bad ideas move forward without being challenged. Even if it can respond in real-time, the responses seem to come back on the user’s phone. I thought AI hardware was being designed to let people pick up their phone less. This does the opposite. And if the user ne…
> or there was a culture where no negativity was allowed, letting bad ideas move forward without being challenged.
I mean, that’s the current AI bubble in a nutshell. It has ‘AI’ in the name, therefore it would be most improper to ask the emperor about his tailor.
And like, even if this somehow worked, and some people thought they wanted it, it would be a bad product. If I notice that the person I’m talking to is wearing a 24/7 surveillance device, I’ll, er, talk to someone else. It’s social pariah-hood in a box.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
No it's a conscious and laughable attempt of theft
It's actually the complete opposite: https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1818460679680278709
Funny, he got his come up from stealing someone else's work. Something about rotating tables...
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/covid-tracker-stole-reddit-wo...
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#34What I want to know is how much money they have raised.
I read $2.8m
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#36Your "Friend" is the NSA unless this is all done on device.
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#37When I saw the video I thought it was a parody. I'm still not sure if this is joke or not. It seems like a lot of effort for something like this and a strange use of the domain name. The T&C's look official enough. I did find this news piece "Avi Schiffmann’s Tab AI necklace has raised $1.9 million to replace God" https://www.fastcompany.com/91007630/avi-schiffmanns-tab-ai-...
Wait, so they raised $1,900,000 and spent $1,800,000 on the domain? https://x.com/AviSchiffmann/status/1818289810647191685 Maybe interest rates could still go higher
It is an asset that might be worth more later though so there is that. It is not $1.9m on an ad.
That said tryfriend.ai is available :)
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#38countdown til the android app running on the custom hardware is leaked
Nah, this is probably more just a Bluetooth audio device that heavily relies on an app to do the lifting.
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#40This, cannot be real. Why was this not abandoned immediately as soon as the AI Pin and the Rabbit thing failed miserably. Putting aside the questionable (and frankly dystopian) side of using AI for something like this, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all building LLM's into their OS's. It would take, a day, maybe? to tweak the system prompt to do exactly what this is doing but built into your OS and not some other u…
> Hope no one wears this to work and it hears and processes something that is non public information.
Or interpersonal communications. I know that I would be extremely circumspect about what I'd be willing to say near someone wearing something like this, even (or especially) if that someone is a close friend.