AI-crafted beer, machine learning for passion projects, and self-taught data science: Jon Krohn and Beau Warren’s hotly anticipated, data-driven, punny lager Krohn&Borg is finally given a taste test in this week’s Five-Minute Friday. Heading to the Species X brewery in Columbus, Ohio, Jon Krohn and Beau Warren launched the beer that had been predicted, optimized and developed by a machine-learning model.
I recently recorded tipplers’ reactions as they had their first taste of the A.I.-crafted “Krohn&Borg” lager I co-developed. Today’s episode illustrates the result: Humans love A.I. beer! There’s also cool content on using CRISPR-Cas9 to modify yeast genes.
Thanks again to Beau Warren, Head Brewer at Species X Beer Project, for the opportunity to collaborate on this delicious project. You can check out Episode #755 for tons of detail on the ML packages used and the models developed to craft beer with A.I.
And thanks to all of the guests/judges in today’s episode:
• Rehgan Avon of AlignAI
• Alexandra Hagmeyer (Dauterman) of Path Robotics
• Kelsey Dingelstedt of Women in Analytics (WIA)
• William McFarland of Omega Yeast
• Jim Lachey of the Super Bowl XXVI-winning Washington Commanders
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