{"id":346994,"date":"2025-08-19T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/a-i-robot-sells-show-tickets-at-fashion-show-mall-definitely-not-a-sex-doll\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:39:03","slug":"a-i-robot-sells-show-tickets-at-fashion-show-mall-definitely-not-a-sex-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/a-i-robot-sells-show-tickets-at-fashion-show-mall-definitely-not-a-sex-doll\/","title":{"rendered":"A.I. Robot Sells Show Tickets at Fashion Show Mall, Definitely Not a Sex Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post-info-panel\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-holder\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-logo\">\n                                                                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/all-about-us\/\"><br \/>\n                                                        <img alt=\"Scott Roeben\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/author-logo-lg-88x88.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/author-logo-lg-176x176.png 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-88 photo\" height=\"88\" width=\"88\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                                    <\/a>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-info-panel__author-content\">\n                                            <span class=\"post-info-panel__title\"><br \/>\n                                                                                                    By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/all-about-us\/\" class=\"post-info-panel__link\">Scott Roeben<\/a>, on August 12 2025                                                                                            <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hawking Las Vegas show tickets is a time-honored tradition. Now, an A.I. robot named Melody is getting in on the act.<\/p>\n<p>Melody was supposed to be Aria. Aria was blonde, Melody is brunette. Oh, and Melody is made by the same company that brought us RealDolls, the life-size sex dolls.<\/p>\n<p>We will, nevertheless, proceed like everything about this story is completely normal. It\u2019s called journalism and maturity. And we probably won\u2019t even mention Melody doesn\u2019t have a vagina, probably. Let\u2019s dive in, shan\u2019t we?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44555\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-44555 size-post-thumbnail-crop-845xAUTO\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/melody_robot-845x563.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cCreepy\u201d is super objective, but the consensus of people we talked to at the Tix4 kiosk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Humanoid robots are all the rage right now. Combine robots, A.I. and Las Vegas shows and you have an irresistible hook to generate buzz.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what local ticket seller Tix4 (formerly Tix4Tonight) is betting on, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, we\u2019re writing about it, so mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Tix4 is working with a company called Realbotix to deliver the \u201cfirst public-facing deployment of a Realbotix robot in its intended business use case and reflects growing interest from partners in entertainment, hospitality and retail sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And you thought robots would be doing your cooking and cleaning. Nope, it\u2019s tickets to Terry Fator, Jeff Dunham and \u201cMenopause the Musical.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44556\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-44556 size-post-thumbnail-crop-845xAUTO\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/melody_robot3-845x563.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We forgot to ask how often she needs to be lubricated. Our bad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you dig a bit deeper, things get a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Realbotix is a subsidiary of Abyss Creations, the sex doll folks. They\u2019re both part of Simulacra Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>The ugly reality is Abyss is being clobbered on the silicone sex doll front by China. That means the company has to diversify. The casino business, especially, has been moving toward replacing humans with robots for some time. Casinos replaced service bartenders with machines a few years ago. Kiosks now check hotel guests in. Robots work security in casinos and vacuum public areas. A number of restaurants use robots to deliver food.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s different with Melody is the \u201chumanoid\u201d part.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not like the robots you see in movies, but she\u2019s definitely not a kiosk, and she\u2019s getting better every day as programming improves.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at Melody in action.<\/p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-zdoylmzuvye\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" class=\"arve\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:500\/281\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer 'none';autoplay 'none';camera 'none';ch-ua 'none';clipboard-read 'none';clipboard-write;display-capture 'none';encrypted-media 'none';gamepad 'none';geolocation 'none';gyroscope 'none';hid 'none';identity-credentials-get 'none';idle-detection 'none';keyboard-map 'none';local-fonts 'none';magnetometer 'none';microphone 'none';midi 'none';payment 'none';picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create 'none';publickey-credentials-get 'none';screen-wake-lock 'none';serial 'none';sync-xhr;usb 'none';window-management 'none';xr-spatial-tracking 'none';\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless=\"\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-zdoylmzuvye\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zdoYLMzuvyE?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"505.8\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zdoYLMzuvyE?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"900\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Melody\u2019s lip movements are mesmerizing and disconcerting, and her lip gloss is on fleek.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, Melody was supposed to be Aria. We hear there was a kerfuffle with the Aria hotel, so there was a course correction, threat of lawsuitwise.<\/p>\n<p>Also as mentioned, while Melody was made by the sex doll company, she doesn\u2019t have all the sex doll attributes. She\u2019s not that kind of doll.<\/p>\n<p>Her A.I. is limited to Las Vegas shows, and only those Tix4 sells tickets to.<\/p>\n<p>She won\u2019t chat about the weather or sports or the trade-offs between interpretability and predictive performance in high-capacity neural architectures under covariate shift, where post-hoc attribution methods falter in high-dimensional non-linear spaces and robustifying the model via inductive biases or invariant risk minimization often comes at the expense of in-distribution accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Las Vegas shows and only Las Vegas shows. Bonus: Robustifying!<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, Melody\u2019s next iteration will have cameras for eyes, so her eye contact will improve dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>She has 18 servos in her head. \u201cServo\u201d is short for servomotor. They help convey emotions with small tilts, quick pans or nods can simulate curiosity, surprise or \u201clistening\u201d behavior. Head movements can be synchronized with arm gestures, speech or sound effects to create more convincing and engaging interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Melody speaks a lot of languages, too, although they haven\u2019t been rolled out yet. Melody will be able to speak 15 languages fluently, with access to 147 more via the cloud.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44557\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44557\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-44557 size-post-thumbnail-crop-845xAUTO\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000;\" alt=\"\" width=\"845\" height=\"1122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/melody_robot2-845x1122.jpg\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44557\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hey, at least she\u2019s not a timeshare salesperson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One twist: Melody can\u2019t sell show tickets. Yay, humans! (Also, give it a minute.)<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been talking a lot lately about how things are changing in Las Vegas, and automation is definitely a key element of that evolution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bigger than that, though. It\u2019s about how our culture and habits are changing. People aren\u2019t resisting machine interaction as one might have predicted. Many actually prefer it.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, because everything sounds fancier if you say \u201ccase in point,\u201d everyone is freaking out about Golden Gate casino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/golden-gate-to-replace-all-live-table-games-with-electronic-table-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing its live table games<\/a>. They\u2019re being replaced with electronic table games. The casino\u2019s owner, Derek Stevens, says what many have seen at other casinos over the past few years: People like electronic table games more.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much every casino has reduced its number of (expensive to run) live table games in lieu of \u201chybrid\u201d or electronic table games, because everything sounds fancier when you say \u201cin lieu of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driving force behind these decisions is cost savings, but it\u2019s more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, we enjoyed our interacting with Melody. We especially like that Melody does not have the ability to point and laugh, behavior we have found common among the human female population.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to overstate our love of A.I., and it\u2019s the primary reason we\u2019re still doing a blog. A.I. images have changed the course of human history, and by that it has provided a tool where we can ridicule the A\u2019s and Las Vegas Review-Journal in completely unprecedented ways.<\/p>\n<p>As A.I. robots take over the jobs typically performed by humans, the biggest pitfall is likely to be around trust.<\/p>\n<p>There is zero trust in Melody\u2019s objectivity. Her mandate is to sell show tickets, and everything you ask inevitably comes back to being about Tix4 and show tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Melody hasn\u2019t seen any of the shows she\u2019s talking about. She isn\u2019t going to be honest about the ones that suck.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Melody is a novelty. She\u2019s getting people at a mall to stop and ask about her.<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re seeing is a toe being dipped into the ocean of A.I. and robotics ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Our advice: Make yourself indispensable.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be replaced soon, but trust that until then, we\u2019ll always tell you the truth, and while our lip gloss may not be on fleek, we\u2019re happy to let you know which shows suck, including Gordie Brown, Eddie Griffin, David Copperfield, Nathan Burton, Zowie Bowie and anything with Anne Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Mariah Carey will be back, probably, don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t warn you.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/a-i-robot-sells-show-tickets-at-fashion-show-mall-definitely-not-a-sex-doll\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] By Scott Roeben, on August 12 2025 Hawking Las Vegas show tickets is a time-honored tradition. 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