About Us

Cwrt Vending is a supervised-generative chatbot research project working to combine AI and digital twin technologies with healthy vending choices.

The first machine is in a Beta at our office in Cwrt Cowork in Cardiff and is named “Charlie”

Charlie is built with a variety of modern technologies including (but not limited to):

  • HumanFirst.ai
  • OpenAI GPT
  • IBM Watson

Charlie is there to help understand what sort of snacks users most want the vending machine stock, to help people with any issues or questions they have about the vending machine or the snacks in it, and also to be personable and good general representative for the vending machine business.

The vending machine is a real vending machine in the Cwrt Cowork office, and sells a variety of confectionary, drinks and healthy snack items.

You can talk to Charlie by SMS on:

UK: +44 7782 695017

Canada/US: +1 514 700 4010

If you choose to have a conversation with Charlie, you are choosing to contribute your conversation to Cwrt Vending and the research project to help train Charlie and other bots like him in the future. Please see the Terms and Conditions below.

Terms and Conditions

By having a conversation with Charlie you agree that you grant Cwrt Vending an exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to the conversation to host, use, reproduce, modify, run, adapt, translate, distribute, publish, create derivative works from and publicly display and perform throughout the world in any media, now known or hereafter devised.

The only personal data we capture for your conversation is the username or phone number for Charlie to reply to you on and this is removed or masked when using your conversation in future work.

As such please don’t contribute any other personal data in your conversation that you would be uncomfortable falling under the grant of the above rights. If you feel you have may have made a mistake and contributed something to the project you did not wish to please send

  • The id or phone-number used to have the conversation of concern
  • The approximate time and date of the incident
  • The item of concern to:

admin@cwrtvending.com and we will review how we can help resolve under the appropriate UK Data Privacy regulations.

Contact

 admin@cwrtvending.com

 02921 202982

 Cwrt Vending. Lambourne House, Lambourne Crescent, Llanishen, CF14 5GL