{"id":12055,"date":"2023-10-31T13:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/an-ai-smoothie-shop-opened-in-san-francisco-with-much-hype-why-is-it-closed-already\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T12:37:23","slug":"an-ai-smoothie-shop-opened-in-san-francisco-with-much-hype-why-is-it-closed-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/an-ai-smoothie-shop-opened-in-san-francisco-with-much-hype-why-is-it-closed-already\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco with much hype. Why is it closed already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BetterBlends promised to invest in the city\u2019s beleaguered downtown but closed its doors in under two months<\/p>\n<p>In September, a \u201cbespoke AI nutrition\u201d store opened in beleaguered downtown San Francisco to much fanfare, promising smoothie concoctions generated by AI and a much-needed boost to the area. Less than two months later, it has seemingly closed without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>BetterBlends advertised \u201cYour Smoothie, powered by AI\u201d and received positive press upon its opening, ginning up excitement for a new business and a novel use of artificial intelligence. Its AI model would take customer orders and preferences to generate a smoothie recipe that would then be blended by hand by co-founders Michael Parlato and Clayton Reynolds, who worked in the shop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/31\/ai-smoothie-betterblends-san-francisco-business-closes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a31a2e4e6d70d4f7619cfc27bd9325d90a06332\/0_183_6240_3744\/master\/6240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f1ed199a6ee4a6bd3421863bfc042773\" title=\"An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco with much hype. Why is it closed already?\" \/>BetterBlends promised to invest in the city\u2019s beleaguered downtown but closed its doors in under two months<br \/>\nIn September, a \u201cbespoke AI nutrition\u201d store opened in beleaguered downtown San Francisco to much fanfare, promising smoothie concoctions generated by AI and a much-needed boost to the area. Less than two months later, it has seemingly closed without explanation.<br \/>\nBetterBlends advertised \u201cYour Smoothie, powered by AI\u201d and received positive press upon its opening, ginning up excitement for a new business and a novel use of artificial intelligence. Its AI model would take customer orders and preferences to generate a smoothie recipe that would then be blended by hand by co-founders Michael Parlato and Clayton Reynolds, who worked in the shop. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BetterBlends promised to invest in the city\u2019s beleaguered downtown but closed its doors in under two months In September, a \u201cbespoke AI nutrition\u201d store opened in beleaguered downtown San Francisco to much fanfare, promising smoothie concoctions generated by AI and a much-needed boost to the area. Less than two months later, it has seemingly closed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/an-ai-smoothie-shop-opened-in-san-francisco-with-much-hype-why-is-it-closed-already\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco with much hype. Why is it closed already?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}