Ever go to a party where they play music you hate, and everyone dances except for you? That shouldn't happen at a party with PartyBOT. Ever wish Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri would let their hair down, stop being such know-it-all busybodies, and head out for a night on the town While it's likely better to have some regular human friends to fill this role, you may still be interested to hear about PartyBOT. Created by Accenture Interactive, PartyBOT loves to party. You know that because it totally says so in his name. PartyBOT debuted at this year's SXSW party: showing off his AI, facial recognition, and natural language processing technology to figure out the emotions of partygoers, and in the process working out which ones needed to be lured to the dance floor, and then feeding that information to the DJ.

Hey Accenture, are you aware that your PR firm is pitching your latest corporate beta for a creepy face and emotion-monitoring algorithm as a party trick? Do you know what a party is? Have you read the definition? Would you call requiring people to download an app before they can get into an event a party-time kind of thing to do? Would you say that demanding that people scan their faces so they can be recognized by an algorithm fun times? Does having that same algorithm watch and record every interaction that happens in the Austin bar or event space you've filled with some light snacks and a bunch of free liquor count as rockin like Dokken? Do good hosts require people to become lab rats in the latest attempt to develop HAL?