{"id":25037,"date":"2022-12-23T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25037"},"modified":"2022-12-23T18:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T23:27:04","slug":"robot-with-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25037","title":{"rendered":"Robot with cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2020, nearly three years ago, I sketched a picture of a robot holding a cocktail. I drew it in dry erase marker, on a whiteboard in our lab&#8217;s conference room.<\/p>\n<p>My sketch was meant as a kind of whimsical nod to a future where we will all be hanging out with our A.I. progeny. It wasn&#8217;t meant to last very long.<\/p>\n<p>But just a few weeks later, on March 12, 2020, everyone left NYU and the University went virtual. When we all came back in September 2021, the sketch was still there.<\/p>\n<p>And somehow, in all that time, nobody saw fit to erase it. I think it became a sort of lab mascot.<\/p>\n<p>The robot, and the cocktail, are still there today. I took the below photo this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/robot_with_cocktail.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2020, nearly three years ago, I sketched a picture of a robot holding a cocktail. I drew it in dry erase marker, on a whiteboard in our lab&#8217;s conference room. My sketch was meant as a kind of whimsical nod to a future where we will all be hanging out with our A.I. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=25037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robot with cocktail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25037"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25042,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions\/25042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}