A San Francisco bar, Raven Bar, has created what it calls the first AI-created cocktail, ChatGPTini, on a bar menu in the city, using OpenAI’s ChatGPT language model. The team at Raven gave the technology a specific flavour profile to work with as well as certain ingredients it could and could not use in the drink, and the platform analysed dozens of drinks that use mezcal. It eventually settled on a recipe incorporating guajillo-chilli-pepper-infused mezcal, fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice, blood orange, and Firewater bitters. However, the bar’s general manager, David Luu, still tested the recipe and tweaked it to get the right balance of sweet, sour and smoky, adding lemon, honey and mint. While some have raised concerns that ChatGPT could take over jobs in the tech or media worlds, Raven Bar’s implementation of the tech shows a real person’s palate is still necessary to ensure cocktails are of high quality.

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