With American breweries releasing tons of new brews weekly, naming those beers something unique has become increasingly difficult and sometimes legally problematic. Research scientist Janelle Shane decided to take matters into her own hands—well, actually, the hands of robots—by using artificial intelligence to generate unique beer names, according to Gizmodo.
Shane describes on her website that she used a data set of “hundreds of thousands” of beer names in over 90 different styles, from Beer Advocate’s website. She then used this data to train a neural network, which is a computer program that imitates datasets, to produce the list.
“It worked,” said Shane on her blog. “The neural network produced unique names that were plausible, or weirdly awesome, or so outlandish that they sounded like the sort of beer you could only buy after a multi-day scavenger hunt involving hang gliding, codebreaking, and Fairbanks, Alaska.”
To see the full list of AI beer names, check out Janelle Shane's blog.
Photo via Flickr user squawkr
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