Robot Company Will Pay $200k for Your Face—If It’s Friendly Enough
If you don't like what a robot is doing with your mug, there are no takebacks.
The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in 2023.
Here’s Promobot’s offer, per a :
“...seeking a face for a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places. The company is ready to pay out $200,000 to somebody willing to transfer the rights to use one’s face forever.”
You could live forever. . .
[. . .] Said client is an American company, they say, “supplying solutions to airports, shopping malls and retail stores,” facial recognition is now common. In teeny-tiny faint print below the press release, it mentions that its robots are used in Walmart, Baltimore-Washington Airport, and Dubai Mall. Who says this? These are the people who brought you a coronavirus diagnostic robot , just as we were on the brink of washing our money.
It’s also headquartered in Russia but claims to have been founded in Philadelphia. Mystifying.
Promobot has not responded to a request for comment on the robot’s use or whether the person with the winning face will be informed of potential uses, but we’ll update the post if we hear back."
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