Thehottestnewhardware,freshlydistilled
Incoming
Allimagecredits:Microsoft/MackmyraSwedenmaynotbethefirstcountrythatspringstomindwhenyouthink
ofwhiskey,butonedistillery’sblendoftraditionaltechniquesandcutting-
edgeMicrosoftcloudAImaybeabouttoputit onthemap.
Nowavailabletobuyfollowingitsannouncementearlierthisyear,
Recipe 36 is analgorithmicallygeneratedblendofspiritsthatwasselected
bya humanmasterblendertogointoproductionfollowing,weassume,a
longperiodoftastingandcontemplation.Possiblyfollowedquiteswiftly
by another one, it being cold in Sweden at this time of year.
The machine learning models, powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud
platform and Azure cognitive services, are fed with Mackmyra’s existing
recipes, sales data, and customer preferences. With this dataset the AI can
generate more than 70 million recipes that it predicts will be popular, based
on what kind of cask types there are in the warehouse.
A request to review a bottle remained unanswered as we went to press.AI-blended whiskey
From £60 https://mackmyra.co.uk
10 |^ |^ November 2019