{"id":431,"date":"2005-02-24T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=431"},"modified":"2005-02-26T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T15:41:48","slug":"431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/431\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellular girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/24\/technology\/24girlfriend.html?\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/images\/wordpress-entries\/cellphonegirlfriend_01.jpg\" alt=\"Vivienne\" style=\"margin: 4px 0px 0px 20px;\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The New York Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/24\/technology\/24girlfriend.html?\">story<\/a> on their webpage about a virtual girlfriend by the name of Vivienne, developed by Artificial Life Inc of Hong Kong. Users of the service pay a monthly fee of $6 to interact with their artificial girlfriend who can discuss 35,000 different topics thanks to a vast database of questions, answers and conversation pieces.<\/p>\n<p>MaryAnna Donaldson, Artificial Life Inc\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creative content editor sees Vivienne not as a replacement and says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope they think of her as a companion and will see her as a practice round before the real one.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Vivienne also has the ability to translate phrases sent to her through the phone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s text message ability and say the translated phrase back to you in a number of languages, including Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian and Spanish. The developers envision this as a boon to travelers who use the service needing a quick translation of common local questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a story on their webpage about a virtual girlfriend by the name of Vivienne, developed by Artificial Life Inc of Hong Kong. Users of the service pay a monthly fee of $6 to interact with their artificial girlfriend who can discuss 35,000 different topics thanks to a vast database of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/431\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cellular girlfriend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}