Podcasting Friendships > AI Friendships

Fight me!

There’s another new AI device on the block: Friend. The name says it all. From The Verge article on the Friend’s launch:

Friend is not a way to get more done or augment or enhance anything. It’s, well, a friend — an AI friend that can go with you anywhere, experience things with you, and just be there with you all the time. “It’s very supportive, very validating, it’ll encourage your ideas,” Schiffmann says. “It’s also super intelligent, it’s a great brainstorming buddy. You can talk to it about relationships, things like that.”

From my perspective, it’s a little too myopic of an approach for me, recalling the old Greek myth of Narcissus staring at his reflection in the water.

But it did make me think about the need a product like this is meeting - the desire to have a companion, someone who understands and engages with us consistently over time, and the ways podcasting can fill that need… with real people.

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