October 3, 2016

Virtual Friend


How about having a customized friend?

This is going to be a future hit just like facebook, twitter and whatsapp. 
Now people are living in a fussy technology world. They don’t have time to live in a social environment.  They don’t have time to get social interaction with people.  All they do is share emotions in social media sites whenever they have little time.   Not all the time they get convincing comments for their social media posts from their friends.

In the real world our friends will not hear you or always agree with your views and opinions.  In other ways each of us are different and we will stand for our own views.  People who don’t have enough time will always need a convincing friend who is very pleasing and very friendly in the real life.  As we know, each people will have different emotions and attitude.  People won’t be same every time. In future finding a pleasing friend itself is going to be one of the difficult tasks.  People may need an understandable friend who will chat when needed or when they are free.  Here is where virtual friend is going to play a vital role. 

Virtual friend is a technology that will allow users to customize their own friend.  There are already various research were going on about artificial intelligence.  In the past decade artificial intelligence research has attained its growth substantially.  With the help of artificial intelligence, a technology called virtual friend application will be engineered. Already people are sharing enough information in social media as a post, comment and smiley’s.  If we think we are actually giving pros and corns to the artificial intelligence.  We are actually teaching the technology about how we react for various posts and comments.  We are actually practicing machines about our emotions.  Do we realize all these social media posts will be saved in various servers along with our personal information?  This can be used as a feed to improve the artificial intelligence research and Virtual Friend technology.

Right now we have few applications where we can customize our own friend.  These apps are not hit because they don’t have the ability to react situations or don’t have effective intelligence to reply. 

Virtual friend application will allow users to design their own technology friend.  User can choose the name, sex, anatomy, skin tone, attitude, dress color, language, etc. of their Virtual friend.  The Virtual friend apps will be added to our mobile and routed with our social media accounts. The virtual friend will also have accounts in the entire social media sites wherever we have registered our own account.  Whenever we do a post in social media the virtual friend will also comment or like our posts, like our human friends.  The virtual friend’s comments will be based on how we customize the attitude in settings.  The technology will also allow future customization if needed. Who knows by 3D technology and with a small projector in our mobile phone, we may interact with our Virtual Friend face to face.

Already human interaction is very less in the modern technology world.  With the existing technology on our mobile phones, the face to face or social interaction has decreased drastically.  Already companies have started allowing people to work from home where there is no face to face social interaction.  If we have a virtual friend, people may stop interacting with humans. By this time humans will have only machines and machine friends at home.  Who knows people may start getting into relationship with virtual friend.


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