Okay, it wouldn’t be so bad if Rodney Copperbottom was your bartender. You know him, right, the genius robot inventor of Robots?
He’s a great guy. Kindhearted, smart, well-intentioned, a true friend. You could trust him with your deepest secrets, and if you were feeling down, he would listen to your story, give you a ride home if you needed one, and certainly repair all your broken parts.
But as you may or may not know by now, robots are probably going to steal all our jobs someday and then put us out to pasture, maybe in not such a nice way. It’s already started, and they’re not just taking all the dirty jobs. They’re already pouring drinks. Yep, robot bartenders.
Maybe not perfectly yet. The guy at Wired had this to say.
As for the drinks themselves, having sampled drinks from almost all the robots, my verdict is that the robots still have a long way to go. The cocktails taste just a little too clinical. There’s a missing ingredient in there. Could that be the human touch?
Oh yeah, a little too clinical, but how long before the robots make a few fine adjustments and start pouring drinks that aren’t a little too clinical for a drink expert at Wired too detect and soon start making drinks better than the neighborhood bartender?
It would be okay if your neighborhood bartending robot was Rodney Copperbottom, but what if he was secretly one of the machines from the Matrix slowly mastering the intricacies of your psyche?
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