Bartending robot can make your favorite drink and crack jokes with you

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Hopefully it doesn’t instantly turn into a racist arsehole like some of the recent chatbots.

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… just our luck that “any self-aware computer instantly becomes a raging genocidal psychopath” turned out to be an accurate prediction :robot:

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I want to know; “Who gets the fine when the robot over-serves, or serves an under-aged drinker?”

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A diligent robot bartender will – if required – call a taxi service for you.

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Interesting excuse for a human head on that snakey-armed robot, but propping one of the latest generation hyper-realistic robot heads on the bartending bot’s torso would have been nightmarish.

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malfunction!
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If the alternative is having a machine learning system attempt to emulate social interaction with me I think I’d rather just drink alone.

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“Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinkin’ alone.”
– Piano Man (1973)

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Hey, no need to hurt anyone’s feelings like that.

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… hurting Kevin Spacey’s feelings is probably OK

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