{"id":14099,"date":"2024-04-15T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/eat-the-future-pay-with-your-face-my-dystopian-trip-to-an-ai-burger-joint\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:38:24","slug":"eat-the-future-pay-with-your-face-my-dystopian-trip-to-an-ai-burger-joint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/eat-the-future-pay-with-your-face-my-dystopian-trip-to-an-ai-burger-joint\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eat the future, pay with your face\u2019: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the experience of robot-served fast food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant<\/p>\n<p>On 1 April, the same day California\u2019s new $20 hourly minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect, a new restaurant opened in north-east Los Angeles that was conspicuously light on human staff.<\/p>\n<p>CaliExpress by Flippy claims to be the world\u2019s first fully autonomous restaurant, using a system of AI-powered robots to churn out fast food burgers and fries. A small number of humans are still required to push the buttons on the machines and assemble the burgers and toppings, but the companies involved tout that using their technology could cut labor costs, perhaps dramatically. \u201cEat the future,\u201d they offer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/15\/ai-burger-joint-flippy-caliexpress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5985b5ff29b11d4c86423e338a060d5db57560e5\/108_0_4795_2880\/master\/4795.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=951783220fd7e25331fcea9f08c87903\" title=\"\u2018Eat the future, pay with your face\u2019: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint\" \/>If the experience of robot-served fast food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant<br \/>\nOn 1 April, the same day California\u2019s new $20 hourly minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect, a new restaurant opened in north-east Los Angeles that was conspicuously light on human staff.<br \/>\nCaliExpress by Flippy claims to be the world\u2019s first fully autonomous restaurant, using a system of AI-powered robots to churn out fast food burgers and fries. A small number of humans are still required to push the buttons on the machines and assemble the burgers and toppings, but the companies involved tout that using their technology could cut labor costs, perhaps dramatically. \u201cEat the future,\u201d they offer. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the experience of robot-served fast food dining is any indication, the future of sex robots is going to be very unpleasant On 1 April, the same day California\u2019s new $20 hourly minimum wage for fast food workers went into effect, a new restaurant opened in north-east Los Angeles that was conspicuously light on human &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/15\/eat-the-future-pay-with-your-face-my-dystopian-trip-to-an-ai-burger-joint\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Eat the future, pay with your face\u2019: my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14100,"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\/14099"}],"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=14099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}