For context, the "bartender technology" was supposed to lay the groundwork for the DAE LE OASIS(tm)(r) virtual reality metaverse full of highly advanced NPCs that would be indistinguishable from real life people. That's how it was peddled from the grifters themselves and that's how the big spenders carried the message of how important it was to have high fidelity bartenders.
:miyazaki-laugh:
Why would you even want this? Even if it was possible and they got the intended result, how would it be any better than just a traditional NPC?
Sex bots?