10 Best Video Game Reveals You Had To Find Yourself

The concept of artificial intelligence is omni-present in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, despite not technically existing. Having already been outlawed, you eventually learn that this world is actually full of rogue, online AI, but they've all been contained by the government behind a kind of super firewall. So while the concept and threat of AI is stitched into the atmosphere, it isn't something you encounter much outside of one unique circumstance central to the plot.

That is, unless you happen to hanging around Megabuilding 8H and overhear a conversation between a woman and a very cheerful, joke-loving machine.

Actually, it's less of a conversation and more of a peppy therapy session. The therapist in question?

Brendan the vending machine.

Brendan is a vending machine with an experimental AI program intended to make him intuitive about the kinds of snacks and drinks customers would prefer best. Instead, he's so intuitive that he understands his customers better than most of the humans in their lives.

Unfortunately, this is Cyberpunk, so it isn't a happy ending for Brendan. He is eventually sent back to the factory for a full software wipe.

We stan a sensitive, snack-dispensing king.