While AI has been used for high-end industry-related solutions, it has some bizarre but true uses

Artificial Intelligence has been credited as a major disruptive force leading us towards digital transformation. From helping in developing high-end robotics to weather predictions, stock market crash, drug discovery, to understanding customer data, better filling system, and so forth, AI is quite instrumental in the technological advancements we see today. Though it is a common thought that AI will rob us of our employment opportunities and jobs, in contrast, it has been observed that AI has helped us by augmenting our capabilities and assisting us in numerous activities, including the trivial ones. While we are all quite aware of how AI is shaping industries generally functions, there are some uncommon applications of AI too. Let us discuss some of them.

1. AI in Brewing**:**

A London-based company called IntelligentX Brewing Co. introduced the world’s first beer brewed with the help of artificial intelligence. Their AI, in the form of a chatbot, takes feedback from customers, enquiring about their flavor preferences, which are often answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or with a 1-10 rating system. Then the bot interprets the information and forwards it to human brewers, who tweak the recipe. Microsoft and Carlsberg started a ‘Beer Fingerprinting’ project in 2017, where machine learning is combined with high tech sensors to recognize subtle nuances and aromas.

2. Fortune Telling**:**

Alexander Reben, an artist and MIT-trained roboticist, built a system that generates one-line predictions by training a neural network on the messages found in thousands of fortune cookies and thousands of inspirational expressions he scraped off the Internet. While he expected playful and seemingly vaguely perceptive advice known to bring a smile to people’s faces after reading fortune cookies, his system produced nearly 75 percent of very negative messages, and the rest were plain weird. Some of the predictions include, “The first man gets the oyster, the second mouse gets” “Success is a powerful excuse,” and many more. Reben calls these results as ‘artificial philosophy.’

3. AI as Lyricist:

Yes, AI was used in writing lyrics of the Alex Da Kid’s 2017 single “Not Easy” by Ambassadors, Elle King, and Wiz Khalifa, which peaked number 4 on iTunes’ Hot Tracks list. AI sifted through millions of conversations, newspaper titles, and lectures based on the main theme of the song: heartbreak. Then, after the theme was defined, machine learning algorithms were used to create music found different musical elements, which gave them ideas on how this piece should sound.

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