Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon

Jearil writes "Wired's 'Table of Malcontents' blog links to an article about a wine-tasting robot that thinks humans taste like bacon. The Japanese robot is intended to act as a personal sommelier, suggesting wines, cheeses, and hors d'oeuvres based on its owners personal tastes. It also apparently thinks humans would be tasty as part of a sandwich." From the article: "Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon ... Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses ... like 'tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was.' But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto." This is most distressing.

Comments

no surprise here

[tpjunkie]

South Pacific islanders that practiced cannabalism used to refer to human meat as "Long Pig" around westerners so as not to clue them in, and furthermore, those same peoples became avid consumers of SPAM, which they claim tasted pretty darn close to people.

Mandatory Simpsons Reference

[beanpolerc]

mmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon

Re:I for one

[Sierpinski]

Well, I for one welcome our new human-eating robotic overlords

Damn you beat me to it, should have known it would have been an early reply. ;-)

I'll say mine anyway:

I for one welcome our new manbacon eating robotic overlords.