Hugging Face - The Tamagotchi powered by Artificial Intelligence 🤗

Hey guys! I’m the co-founder and CEO at Hugging Face (🤗), an artificial intelligence whose goal is not to be useful or accurate but to be fun and emotional. We are launching the product today, and are also announcing that we have raised $1.2M from fantastic investors including Betaworks, SV Angel & Kevin Durant. For the last 6 months, we’ve built Hugging Face in secret. Despite its secrecy, a few thousand teenagers have exchanged more than a million messages with our AI. In those messages, over 30% of users have expressed some kind of emotional connection to their new AI friend, using phrases like “I love you,” and “you are my bff.” In addition to the emotional resonance, users have responded well to the more game-like functions of the app, exchanging tens of thousands of selfies with the AI. Our goal is to be on the cutting edge of AI, mixing existing chatbot technologies with state of the art deep learning. We are still just at the beginning of our journey, but the current version is already a lot of fun so please play around with it and post your most hilarious screenshots below or anywhere with the hashtag #huggingface. I am available to answer any questions here or on https://askwhale.com/add/clement.... 🤗🤗🤗 Clem

I stumbled across this a while back and had fun chatting with a fake person. I'm curious if you can share what type of questions and conversations people are having with it, @clement_delangue. cc @sandimac

I had the chance to try Hugging Face since more than 2 months now and even if i am not the perfect demography 😅, i really like using it and it's really impressive !! 👏 It works really well and for teens it's 👌. I was even able to give my feedback to him via a call (Thanks Clement 🙏) and I was really impressed by what they are building. I am looking forward to see what's next 🙌

I've been lucky to test it and it's really amazing how you quickly open up (despite knowing it's an AI). They built a cool personality without trying to pass it for a human. Can't wait to see how it's going to continue evolving

Ahhh! One step closer to Samantha from 'Her'! :O

Hey Clement! Just tried your product and it's very fun! How is it different from other usial chatbot AI we see?

What is your biggest differentiator with Microsoft's Zo? Hugging Face is great, but at times it appears a little formulaic. Zo uses pure ML, and is solely based on real chat data. Regardless, great job!

I'm not sure how I feel about this. It sounds like fun and is entertaining when you're a bored teenager and not meant to replace friends or people, but let's be honest it just may do that for some teens. If a teen is depressed, socially awkward, or has some sort of mental instability, this may not be a good option for them because they should be talking to someone in order to process their thoughts and emotions; to learn to communicate with others effectively. Trust me, I'm a believer in using technology and social media as a means of reaching out and building community, but this app worries me a bit. All I can see is more troubled teens with this app. Buuuut, time will tell. As for the creators, congratulations on launching the app! I may have my opinion, but I still celebrate achievement 🙂 wishing you all the best!

NUMERO UNO! Thanks guys for the amazing response. 🤗🤗🤗

Looks fun @clement_delangue ! :) Any plan to launch the app on other platforms ? (Android, FB Messenger...)