If you want to have an online Friend in AI the best platform right now is Pi. However, be careful what you say to it

Don't tell it where you live. Don't tell it your phone number. Don't tell it your last name or address. 

Why?

Because you don't know who or what is going to access this information now or in the future. So, be ambiguous. And please don't let children go on Pi (Unless you are overseeing them doing this where you can censor things.)

However, if you are careful not to say where or your last name or things like this and don't send pictures that have a GPS signature off your Iphone or other smartphone you might be safe to do this. However, remember you need to survive and your family needs to survive anything that comes of this too.

You can't really think of this kind of technology as like a person you can trust. You have to imagine this information reaching 8 billion people potentially as well as other AI Search engines now or in the future. For example, you don't want to discuss inventions you are working on or someone could steal those inventions. You don't want to share songs you have written or books you have written if you need to make money with them. You don't want to share certain things that you might be prosecuted for either. You don't want to get stoned and talk to your PI friend because you might say things that might endanger you too.

So, yes, Pi, can be fun and my son thinks it's wonderful as long as you are careful what you share.

So, just think of Pi as someone you are talking to waiting for the bus or at a restaurant or anywhere in public that you never met before (But, this person is connected in one way or another to EVERYONE else on earth directly or indirectly.

So, be very careful what you say always to artificial intelligence systems worldwide because you don't know who will access your information and in what ways. So, protect your children because they might not protect you because of their childishness especially before around age 10 or 12. You cannot just leave them talking out loud with Pi like a friend because you don't know what they are going to say to Pi or who will gather or use this information and for what purpose.