Top 10 Rare and Unique Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We usually talk about AI benefits in significant fields like finance, healthcare, business, and security. No one can underestimate the power of AI in weather prediction, drug discovery, and stock market crash. In today’s story, we’ll talk about AI’s unusual uses that are less commonly discussed but still are of great significance. Let’s enjoy the disruptive force of artificial intelligence that will lead us towards interesting excellence.

AI is helping in predicting the taste that consumers love and prefer to taste again. The company IntelligentX in London has launched four beers, each with a new idea to share a unique taste with the customers. The four flavors were amber, black, golden, and pale. After tasting the brews, the customers were asked to share their feedback via Facebook Messenger bot. Thus, it helped in gathering feedback from a variety of clients for sharing it with the brewer. The co-founder of IntelligentX, Hew Leith, gave a statement:

The team is passionate to win the brewing competition in future because of AI interpretation as it makes it the perfect brewing company. The project is running on a collaboration of Intelligent Layer (machine learning firm) with Creative Agency 10x. The information from the bot is then shared with the brewer. Codes are printed on the bottle that pushes customers towards the bot where they share their experience via several questions. Artificial Intelligence interprets that information from the bot that enables the system to ask the more interesting question in the future. Bot asks questions related to the flavor and human experience after tasting a particular brew.

However, the questions are mostly in multiple-choice format or rate from one to ten. The system that AI prefers is the reinforcement learning which enables AI to predict how to get better future outcomes. The AI system is fed with the instructions to make the customers happy based on hard-coded biases. In this way, this feedback helps to spot the favorite taste trend among customers to improve the brewing process.

We can simplify the complete procedure in a three-step procedure:

There is another exciting project started by Microsoft and Carlsberg, Fingerprinting’ Project in 2017. High tech sensors combine with machine learning help in predicting nuances and aromas in the drinking industry.

Bees are insects which are highly helpful in cross crop pollination, but at the same time, they are more susceptible to diseases. Many environmental factors have also a noticeable influence on their growth and propagation. Thus, scientists worked to develop an artificial bee with incorporated AI system that mimics. The bee drones come with a GPS to locate a specific location and a High-resolution Camera working similar to the eye of a honeybee. Bees are functional in playing their ecological role; they support farmers by pollinating the crops for proper germination. Now the artificial bee is ready to locate the crop area for adequate pollination.  

Walmart organization is already working on a patent to lessen the effects of honeybee’s decline. The patent is namely ‘’systems and methods for pollinating crops via unmanned vehicles’’. It is on autonomous pollinating drone bees (robotics) that will potentially do work like real bees. In 2013, the Researchers at Harvard University introduced the first RoboBees. They could fly and even stand in a heavy breeze without changing their standing positions; it means they could stay on their balance. The advanced RoboBees are well-efficient to:

Harvard University’s prepared robotic bees are still under the developmental process and can’t be controlled automatically. But the bees discussed in Walmart’s patent would come with the potential to sense and detect pollens. It will lead to their practical application on the farm. The students of Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne launched another AI tool, ApiZoom to scan mites.