AI ice cream flavours


Spotted via fastcompany, a group of school children from Texas used a neural network to generate ice cream flavour names.

The programmer of the neural network is Janelle Shane and she has a text-generating AI called textgenrnn which takes inputted datapoints and generate related text based on those. Shane had previously used 200 ice cream flavours and the results were less than satisfactory, including silence cherry, strawberry cream disease, sock caramel.

The schoolkids used a total of 1600 flavours, and together with the AI’s learning ability, generated more appetising flavours such as honey vanilla happy, team cherry, oh and cinnamon. That said, other flavour names generated include washing chocolate, mango cat, gravey cashew. There was also one flavour known simply as bug.

Still, pretty impressive.