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domain name of Friend.com, has intentionally given its companion chatbots bad attitudes because, as its brash CEO Avi Schiffmann suggests, it's better for business.when it showed people wearing large circular pendants that, when pressed, allowed them to speak aloud to virtual companions. Those companions — or "friends," per company nomenclature — would respond back with seemingly encouraging and supportive messages.
"If they just opened with 'Hey, what’s up?' like most other bots do," Schiffmann justified, "you don’t really know what to talk about." "It knows what it is, what materials the housing is made of, what components are on the circuit board, its battery level, location, brightness, if the user is touching it," the employee told us.
"Because your friend is physically there with you always sensing its environment , you don’t have to be chatting for your friend to be forming new memories/ you feeling like it’s present," the staffer continued.
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