Perhaps to my overall detriment, I enjoy a glass of scotch. It doesn’t have to be the fancy stuff, either — as long is it isn’t the literal and figurative bottom of the barrel, I’ll probably find something to like in the liquor. Despite my, er, deep well of experience, though, I’m by no means an expert on the storied alcohol. Thankfully, it sounds like there could soon come a time when AI software could help steer me towards that mythological “perfect whiskey.”
Harmonize, a start-up from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, is aiming to combine mass spectrometry and artificial intelligence to better analyze all the intricacies of what makes a damn good scotch.
