The creator of a $99 AI-powered necklace known as ‘Friend,’ which is eerily just like one other AI necklace, has a historical past of making YouTube movies on crypto mining and getting wealthy with crypto.
A fast recap, ‘Friend’ was created by 21-year-old Avi Schiffmann and is the most recent system using synthetic intelligence (AI) that has caught everybody’s consideration.
The system can reportedly ‘combat loneliness’ by listening to your conversations and sending messages in response. Pal has already been described as ‘dystopian.’
There’s already an AI necklace known as Pal
Curiously, Forbes reported the launch of a separate AI-powered necklace, additionally known as Pal, one month in the past. This product was created by Based mostly {Hardware} and its Chief Govt Officer Nik Shevchenko.
Shevchenko’s Pal is $70 and makes use of ChatGPT and a microphone to document your conversations and create emails, alerts, and ‘proactive insights.’ This Pal launched on June 24, 2024, and can ship its AI necklaces within the fourth quarter of this 12 months.
Each in title and bodily idea, it appears Schiffmann’s Pal is just like Shevchenko’s Pal. Nonetheless, whereas Shevchenko’s Pal is pitched as a productive instrument, Schiffmann’s Pal sees itself as an ‘emotional toy’ that avoids a productiveness focus.
He instructed TechCrunch his system is designed as an AI pal and nothing extra.
Schiffmann created the AI necklace beneath the agency MyTabAI, INC. He filed an software to trademark Pal on Could 7, 2024. We’ve got reached out to Schiffmann to search out out if the product took inspiration from Shevchenko’s Pal.
In line with 404Media, Schiffmann used $1.8 million from a $2.5 million fundraiser to buy the area title Pal.com. He additionally managed to draw Solana founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, and Morning Brew’s CEO and co-founder, Austin Rief, and Jordan Singer to take a position.
Teenage Crypto YouTuber
Nonetheless, six years in the past Schiffmann, who would’ve been roughly 15 on the time, created a collection of cryptocurrency movies on his YouTube channel. Movies ranged from updating the progress of his crypto mining rig, crypto information segments, and informational movies on create wallets and cash.
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Different video titles included “Rags to Riches – CryptoCurrency Trading (EPISODE ONE!),” and “2018 TRON COIN PRICE PREDICTIONS! ONE DOLLAR???” The creator of the AI product RabbitAI additionally had a controversial historical past with crypto.
Schiffmann additionally used the channel to create 3D modeling and Adobe modifying tutorials whereas additionally filming himself enjoying Bethsda’s hit RPG Skryim. Then, on the age of 17, he reportedly created a worldwide COVID-19 tracker that managed to drag in 700 million guests.
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