Attendees watch as a Kuka LBR iiwa industrial robotic arm pours a glass of weiss beer during a... [+] display on the Kuka AG exhibition stand during the Automatica trade fair in Munich, Germany, on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg Want to impress your friends at a summer cookout? Try bringing IntelligentX beer; the first beer created through artificial intelligence. So far there are four beers, each one created by and altered based on customer feedback received by an algorithm. According to WiredUK the algorithm is hidden behind a Facebook Messenger bot and passes along customer feedback to human brewers who change the recipes from there. There are also codes printed on the bottles allowing people to find the bot. The bot then asks customers several questions including ones about flavour; customers can rank their answers out of ten, yes or no and multiple choice. The AI is also capable of learning from customer feedback through reinforcement learning to learn from how it has acted and get better results in the future. Essentially the AI is 'rewarded' based on biases hard-coded within it that tell it to please customers – for instance, those who like maltier stouts or IPAs. The feedback data is then accumulated to view trends and change the brewing process, allowing the beers to slowly alter over time. In the last 12 months, the four beers have changed eleven times based on initial feedback. Currently, the beers are touring around tech and startup events in East London and are also being stocked by co-working space WeWork. You can also sign up here to try a free AI beer.
IntelligentX is using AI to help craft the perfect beer. The brewery uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to collect and learn from consumer feedback, this feedback is sent through to the brewers who can then alter the beer. The company currently offers four beers which, over the past 12 months, have been altered 11 times as a result of consumer feedback.