By | Bernard Marr
That glass of fine whisky you sip at the end of a long day? It may have been created with the help of AI.
Mackmyra, an award-winning Swedish distillery, has launched Intelligens, the world’s first whisky created using an artificial intelligence program.
The Fine Art of Creating a Top-Quality AI Whisky
Mackmyra partnered with Finnish technology company Fourkind to develop an AI system that augments and automates some of the tasks of the distillery’s master blender, who is responsible for whisky flavor and product development.
Master blenders spend their time meticulously tasting and experimenting to create the best flavors possible, and that process can be time-consuming. Mackmyra wanted machine learning to work its magic in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new combinations.
Fourkind created their AI system using Machine Learning Studio and Microsoft Azure, then fed the system datasets that included: