Geekwire covers another interesting example of human and machine collaboration. This time, Mackmyra, a Swedish whisky distillery, turned to Microsoft and a Finnish technology consulting firm called Fourkind to create novel whisky recipes for master blender Angela D’Orazio.
At this stage, these sorts of collaborations seem a bit gimmicky - it seems as though the human is still doing most of the work - curating recipes and ingredients while the AI system cranks out exponentially more options than the distillery had considered on its own. But how much value is there in millions of new potential recipes, really?
Either way, we’ll have to wait a bit for the end product to become available in the United States.
