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December 14, 2018 / by / In cocktail

Episode 10: Human-AI Collaborated Cocktails

In this episode of How to Generate (Almost) Anything, we collaborated with Jared Sadoian, the bar manager at The Hawthorne to make human-AI collaborated cocktails!

TL;DR? Check out the Youtube video of this project!

Human-AI collaborated cocktails, made by Jared Sadoian at The Hawthorne, and co-tasted by Emily Salvador.


We trained a recurrent neural network on thousands of cocktail recipes from 1001 Cocktails, and generated new ones. Jared Sadoian, an MIT-trained computer scientist turned bartender kindly agreed to collaborate with us and made 3 of the cocktails at his bar! Hint: they are extremely sweet.

Here are the 3 AI-generated cocktails brought to reality by Jared, and co-tasted by Emily Salvador from HTGAA team. Note that the recipes from 1001 Cocktails are in French, so are the AI-generated cocktail recipes! The translations of the ingredients are also given below.

Lait de cock

French:
0.1 None citron (0.1 lemon)
2.0 cl de liqueur de cacao blanc (2.0 cl of white cocoa liquor)
2.0 cl de vodka (2.0 cl of vodka)
2.0 cl de curaçao bleu (2.0 cl of blue curacao)
0.1 kilo de menthe (0.1 kilo of mint)
1.0 cl de sirop de grenadine (1.0 cl of grenadine syrup)

Ilour truits

French:
3.0 cl de vodka (3.0 cl of vodka)
1.5 cl de sirop de grenadine (1.5 cl of grenadine syrup)
0.5 cl de liqueur de cacao brun (0.5 cl of brown cocoa liquor)
2.0 cl de sirop de sucre de canne (2.0 cl cane sugar syrup)
0.5 cl de liqueur de coco (cocogif, malibu) (0.5 cl of coconut liquor (cocogif, malibu))
1.0 cl de sirop de cannelle (1.0 cl cinnamon syrup)
1.0 cl de sirop de grenadine (1.0 cl of grenadine syrup)

Biride nanille

French:
15.0 cl de vin rouge (15.0 cl of red wine)
None None eau gazeuse (perrier, salgetat) (Sparkling water (perrier, salgetat)
50.0 grammes de cassis (50.0 grams of Cassis Liqueur)
2.0 cl de jus de cannelle (2.0 cl of cinnamon juice)
1.0 cl de liqueur de cacao brun (1.0 cl brown cocoa liquor)
4.0 cl de vin rouge (4.0 cl of red wine)
0.5 de rhum blanc (0.5 of white rum)
2.0 cl de lait (2.0 cl of milk)
Special thanks to Jared Sadoian, and The Hawthorne for making this amazing collaboration possible! We would also like to thank to Emily Salvador from HTGAA team for videotaping this experiment.

Special Thanks to Ackmena

Ackmena is the bartender AI that collaborated with Jared in this episode. Similar to her namesake, she is respected by many, and her friendly manners made her more popular within the other AIs in HTGAA project.

Note: Lavenza’s profile picture is also dreamed-up by an AI.


Note: The tunes we used in the video is generated by our music expert AI, Halleck from Episode 1 of How to Make (Almost) Anything. Please give him some love, and use some of his tunes to create your own human-AI collaborated music!