AI Can Now Smell Whiskey! Successfully Identifies Differences Between American and Scotch Whiskeys

Recently, a research team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging in Germany developed an artificial intelligence molecular scent prediction algorithm called OWSum, which successfully distinguishes American whiskey from Scotch whiskey, surpassing human experts in accuracy. The team trained this AI tool using flavor descriptions and chemical data of whiskey to explore its potential in whiskey identification. Image source note: The image was generated by AI, and the image licensing provider Midjourney was involved in the study, where researchers selected 16 samples.