Carlsberg Turns To AI To Help Develop Beers (fastcompany.com) 56
From a report: One of the reasons it takes so long to develop new beers is because brewers have to rely on actual humans -- and techniques like chromatography and spectrometry -- to test liquids and detect flavors and aromas. Carlsberg thinks it's found a better way. With help from researchers at Aarhus University, the Danish beer-maker has developed sensors that are able to detect differences between beer flavors, the Financial Times reports. Now, the company is teaming up with Microsoft to help interpret that data via artificial intelligence and streamline the lengthy beer-making process.
Artifial Intelligence? (Score:1)
has developed sensors that are able to detect differences between beer flavors,
That's an Artificial Redneck.
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Microsoft Beer 10. After heavy and sustained use, a reboot into the porcelain throne may be required.
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"Microsoft Beer 10. After heavy and sustained use, a reboot into the porcelain throne may be required."
Throne? The Germans have specialist throw-up porcelain (Kotzbecken) for that.
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This is not A.I. (Score:1)
There is nothing intelligent about a database of data unless it starts designing fjords in its search for the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
This is not A.I. even if they use a neural network to sort the beer flavours. I really hope the media will find a new acronym or term to abuse in 2018, the "A.I." abuse in 2017 is really getting up my nose, and should die a very quick death.
machine learning and faith (Score:2)
The difference between machine learning and AI is that people doing machine learning know they can't trust the machine and so only do what they understand and for AI it's exactly the opposite. They trust and untrustable system to do something without understanding how. That may sound like a dis. But on the other hand I trust my brain and I have evidence it's not trustworthy and I have no idea how it works. But the reason it's a dis is that what I described is more faith based than science based. On t
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no
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When it performs something that most people agree is intelligent.
(Doing one very stupid thing, or even a lot of stupid things at once, does not count)
Re:This is not A.I. (Score:5, Insightful)
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I really hope the media will find a new acronym or term to abuse in 2018, the "A.I." abuse in 2017 is really getting up my nose, and should die a very quick death.
Alternatively, you could just shut up about it.
Sensors (Score:2)
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If Beer is proof that god loves us, and wants us to be happy, does that mean beer inventing AI also loves us and wants us to be happy? Can I finally convert my robopocalypse-ready bunker into a fully stacked beer cellar?
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If Beer is proof that god loves us
Typically less than 20 proof.
And it's not mutual.
Software (Score:2)
Sensors are AI now. Will the hype cycle ever end for AI?
No, the software to interpret the data from the sensors is what they are calling AI. Bit of a stretch of the term I'll agree but not quite as silly as you are implying. To be honest if the system isn't able to autonomously interpret the data in novel ways without being more than a glorified lookup table I'm not really sure the there is any AI involved. I don't really see how this is more than an expert system [wikipedia.org] in any circumstance.
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TBD (Score:2)
So software that used to interpret sensor data is AI?
In principle it could be. You can do clever things with the data (AI for lack of a better term) or simply provide read-outs to be interpreted by people or something not quite AI but still automated. Whether this particular case is AI will depend on what the software actually does. I'm a little dubious it will be more exotic than an expert system but maybe they are working on something more clever than that. Not enough detail to really know. Like you I strongly suspect it is mostly marketing fluff since
Clippy (Score:1, Insightful)
It looks like you're trying to hrew an IPA. Would you like help brewing an IPA?
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It looks like you're trying to hrew an IPA. Would you like help brewing an IPA?
LOL!!!
This is EXACTLY the Comment I came here to Post! (Including the choice of beer/ale type!)
I can see the advertising now (Score:2)
"Hal Extra Stout, made with pure Europan spring water - one toot and you won't be opening those pod bay doors!"
Surprising flavors (Score:2)
Looks like you're pissed out of your skull again (Score:3, Funny)
I hear MS' Tay is looking for work (Score:2)
ummmm (Score:2)
Or dare I say - a return to the days of BuMilCoors light lager swill.
One of the reasons I like Craft beer is that there is a human in the loop.
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Damn I knew it... craft beer is MADE OF PEOPLE
He said "human in the loop", not "human in the hoop".
As for how much I appreciate a human in the loop, I have to agree with the late George Carlin. The typical human seems pretty stupid, and a full half of everyone is more stupid than that.
Most "craft beers" these days is swill, overhopped to mask bad production and give it longer shelf life. And the less enlightened fad-following half of the population lap it up, sometimes literally.
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One of the reasons I like Craft beer is that there is a human in the loop. Damn I knew it... craft beer is MADE OF PEOPLE
I do know my mother always called Budweiser and Coors "PeeWaa" so yeah possibley some human input there.
perhaps now the secret of Burton snatch (Score:2)
What is the secret of Burton snatch? [bbc.com] — 2016
Sure (Score:2)
Is "AI" replacing the word "software"? (Score:1)
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What do you call an application that is trained with some data to give fuzzy answers based on input in a way that mimics human behaviour in similar situation?
Buggy.
Hope that helps, have a nice day
Seriously, do we really need more kinds of beer? (Score:2)