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One job you might not have expected AI to come for is theme park mascots. But Disney\u2014which is all-in on AI tech\u2014has found a way, although perhaps there are still a few kinks to work out. As Polygon<\/em> spotted, a new life-size Olaf animatronic robot has just been rolled out at Disney parks around the world, independently roaming the parks\u2019 paths and chatting away with guests in Josh Gad-voiced lines. That is, unless it appears to suddenly suffer a heart attack and just drop down dead in front of a crowd of terrified children. That\u2019s what happened in Disneyland Paris on March 29.<\/p>\n I cannot begin to tell you how gruesomely funny this clip is. It\u2019s not just that Olaf\u2019s nose pops right off as he hits the ground, although that is spectacular. For me it\u2019s more that moment of frozen (ha) horror on his face before he falls, accompanied by the scream of the crowd. Watch it three times in a row for yourself:<\/p>\n It\u2019s like Olaf sees his death before it takes him. That sudden switch from a goofy ol\u2019 guy having a swell ol\u2019 time, to a transfixed stare that transcends universes as his eyes meet the infinite gaze of Azathoth. It\u2019s too much, he\u2019s seen the full truth of the primordial chaos, and can now only embrace oblivion.<\/p>\n Disney staff immediately rush in, not to help the poor little snowman back to his feet, but instead to carry his corpse away to wherever they store the bodies at Disneyland, while an Arendelle villager chuckles away at the snowy guy\u2019s misfortune. It\u2019s all so splendidly un-Disney, which is likely why the clip has been viewed 2.2 million times. (Although that .2 might be just me.) And kudos to the English tourist who says, \u201cOlaf fall down!\u201d He is the cherry on top.<\/p>\n If you want to see how Olaf\u00a0should<\/em> work, and how \u201cAI\u201d is involved, here\u2019s half an hour of Disney propaganda:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One job you might not have expected AI to come for is theme park mascots. But Disney\u2014which is all-in on AI tech\u2014has found a way, although perhaps there are still a few kinks to work out. As Polygon spotted, a new life-size Olaf animatronic robot has just been rolled out at Disney parks around the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6246,6245,2318,6242,4435,6244,6243],"class_list":{"0":"post-6236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-crowd","10":"tag-dead","11":"tag-disneys","12":"tag-falls","13":"tag-front","14":"tag-olaf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}