{"id":182281,"date":"2017-03-08T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/soylent-found-a-way-to-make-itself-even-creepier-an-ai-spokesperson-co-create\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:23:14","slug":"soylent-found-a-way-to-make-itself-even-creepier-an-ai-spokesperson-co-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/ai\/soylent-found-a-way-to-make-itself-even-creepier-an-ai-spokesperson-co-create\/","title":{"rendered":"Soylent Found A Way To Make Itself Even Creepier: An AI Spokesperson &#8211; Co.Create"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    WHAT: \"Trish,\" the washing machine-looking    artificially intelligent spokesperson for Soylent.  <\/p>\n<p>    WHO: Soylent, Wieden + Kennedy's The Lodge  <\/p>\n<p>    WHY WE CARE: Soylent staked its ground in    \"this product is kind of creepy\" territory from the moment they    named their nutritional meal-replacement \"soylent,\" after the    1973 horror-thriller Soylent Green. That film starred    Charlton Heston as he attempted to discover what the processed    meal replacement that people consumed was made of (spoiler:    Soylent Green is people!!), which is not    context you can avoid when discussing the product that bears    its name.  <\/p>\n<p>    However, if that alone isn't creepy enough for you, worry not:    Now Soylent has teamed with agency Wieden+Kennedy to launch    \"Trish,\" an AI-powered spokesperson, who joins the company's    sci-fi dystopian messaging like \"Food That Frees You,\" and an    eerily sterile design. According to press materials, Trish \"is    rational, cares about humans, knows a ton about nutrition, and    above all elseis helpful.\" Certainly, \"cares about humans\" is    high on the list of things that humans should look for in an AI    buddy (it beats the alternative, anyway). And having a robot    pal who can help customers aspiring not to eat actual meals    with figuring out what to do with their tubes and\/or powdered    bags of sort-of food, how much to eat, what flavors they might    enjoy, and more. If getting those answers from an AI bot that    looks like a washing machine appeals to you, congratulations!    You are definitely in Soylent's target demographic.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcocreate.com\/3068809\/quick-hit\/soylent-found-a-way-to-make-itself-even-creepier-by-introducing-an-ai-spokesperson\" title=\"Soylent Found A Way To Make Itself Even Creepier: An AI Spokesperson - Co.Create\">Soylent Found A Way To Make Itself Even Creepier: An AI Spokesperson - Co.Create<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> WHAT: \"Trish,\" the washing machine-looking artificially intelligent spokesperson for Soylent. WHO: Soylent, Wieden + Kennedy's The Lodge WHY WE CARE: Soylent staked its ground in \"this product is kind of creepy\" territory from the moment they named their nutritional meal-replacement \"soylent,\" after the 1973 horror-thriller Soylent Green <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/ai\/soylent-found-a-way-to-make-itself-even-creepier-an-ai-spokesperson-co-create\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}