Creator of 'Creepy' AI Friend Necklace Says It's 'Like God'

Critics have ridiculed the 21-year-old’s new product, called “Friend”—an A.I.-powered, always-listening necklace that chats with you through text messages—throughout its development. But his view of Friend as a project, rather than a real device for which he is asking investors from companies like Sequoia Capital to help fund, allows him to not take the criticism personally.