Honestly, if AI flavored Coke was meant to be "how fans envision the future," the fact that it tastes so awful is pretty fitting. And it further proves that there are just some things AI should never be used for, as well as that chasing trends like this usually doesn't work.
I remember trying one and thinking to myself "This doesn't taste like future, this tastes like coke!" Maybe it was just me, but I didn't see much of a difference compared to normal everyday coke, but to be honest, no matter how it tasted, I think I would've had the same sentiment. Why the fuck would they make AI flavored coke to begin with?
The thing i like about the times we live in is that whenever a technology like Blockchain, AI and other technologies that are yet to be proven truly reliable comes to the scene, both people and companies flock to use it either for a marketing stunt or for some features that are mediocre at best and complete utter dogshit at worst. And then toss it away in the bin like it didn't existed
I think you are trying to talk about crypto currency not block chain lmao. Block chain is a very reliable entity for sharing of data/information among the different members of a network like in the medical supply chain where seller , manufacturer and distributor have access to information only available to them via encryption. Don't talk about something you don't fully understand.
@@garronjohnson483There isn’t much of a difference honestly. Things like ChatGPT and Midjourney are going to end up degenerating due to taking their own content and compiling it. If they don’t, it’s plagiarism. It’s better than the alternative, which is AI-generated slop making actual information and entertainment extremely hard to find.
That is just like that for any new technology. Use it, apply it to everything to experiment around and it loses popularity. Eventually, over time it gains back popularity through a more refined use of the technology, rather than squirting out whatever comes out as ideas.
@@tommyvercetti891 "I think you are trying to talk about crypto currency not block chain" What? I agree block chain is reliable and all that, but are you implying crypto is somehow a failure? When bitcoin is still worth plenty of money? I'm not saying bitcoin is some revolutionary currency of the future that will replace fiat, but you've got to be huffing serious copium to think "crypto is a failure" or "wasn't proven reliable." It works for black market transactions, how tf are you gonna pretend it hasn't proven its reliability? Literal governments can't even stop/control it outside of outlawing it. Meanwhile, USD is going through rapid inflation BECAUSE of government control. In a way, crypto is proving to be MORE reliable unless the internet is nuked... but that's like arguing fiat is unreliable because the government accepting it as legal tender could fall.
i like this channel because it never takes a weird turn, it always just explains things in the most simple explanation, you could have gone any direction with "why does coke make a new AI flavor that actually tastes awful". I see many accounts online that just go with "because they try to poison you/sell corn syrup/big gov" but you apply occams razor often to just say "because its a new way to test out flavors and see what sticks" which is highly likely to be true and not conspiratorial at all
Those guys arent exactly brilliant, ngl. Why would they limit themselves to just the weird new flavor to push that corn syrup shit? Anyone worth their salt would apply it to everything lol
Coca Cola is actually paralleling Nuka Cola from Fallout pretty heavily right now. Flavors like Quartz, Victory, Wild or even Dark seem like a plausible thing to see on real store shelves.
I actually bought a couple cans of sugar-free AI coke because I started playing FO4 like a month ago and haven't had soda in a long time. Idk if my taste buds are weird or what but I actually kinda liked it, it's like regular Coke but with a touch of vanilla and bubblegum/artificial fruit flavours, I imagine Newka-Cola must taste similar to this irl lol
I don't understand how people taste such wildly different things, just tasted like regular coke pretty much to me. No weird after tastes, no berry or vanilla taste, just coke but slightly different.
XKCD has a comic where a professor serves his colleagues AI generated foods, but it serves things like Cheerios with vermouth (alcohol), deep fried skittles, quail eggs in whipped cream, and the professor explains that the genetic algorithm will start getting it right if they come back only a few hundred more times. All the stuff they call "AI" starts by doing things at random and it needs to test different algorithms, hundreds, thousands, millions of times until it finds one that actually works. A lot of the progress in AI is just making these randomly generated algorithms more complex and testing more of them.
The thing is that, AI is just feeding an algorithm many prompts and hoping that whatever it spits out is a good thing. And in this case, that dumb *_"AI flavoured coke"_* (what the hell does that even mean?) was a very awful and terrible thing, but hey, that's what happens when you try new things. You win some, you lose some.
i actually like to mix drink flavors on the regular to this day, for over 12 years i have been doing so whenever i can because trying out new things is a REALLY big part of my life.
Hey now, at least Nuka Cola had the decency to let humans design their sodas and at least attempted to innovate, even if that innovation was just making their soda highly radioactive.
AI will never and simply can't know about human perception of flavor enough to come up with anything particularly new with flavors.. but I suppose it can be useful in general advice about flavor and cooking if taught to do so, but it'll just be regurgitating already established information, that could maybe result in something new, but it'd have no idea if it's actually good.
remember the old 90s tech bubble when every company decided to put "world wide web" as a prefix or "com" in front of their name even if they were not tech related just to drive up investment funds? we never learn, do we.
There's something to be said about how it's supposed to be the "flavor of the future" and then it just tastes shitty and worse than before. Even if it's a bad product I feel like that's a very accurate, very common sentiment amongst people these days.
They taste horrible. I used to see the gatorade commercials and think it would make me super charged and give me energy to run a marathon, then i drank it and discovered it tasted like colorful pee
Two fun facts: 1: AI coke has been selling in Argentina for atleast a month now, to be fair i like the taste 2: Coke is also using AI art in their ads, coincidentaly one appeared when i selected this video
I asked chat Gpt to invent a new coke flavour. I'm certain that this is better than whetever they've been cooking up. Certainly! How about "Tropical Sunset Bliss"? It could be a refreshing blend of exotic tropical fruits like passion fruit, guava, and pineapple, with a hint of coconut and a touch of citrus to evoke the feeling of a tropical sunset. The flavor profile would aim to be both vibrant and soothing, offering a unique and delightful taste experience.
Working at Dollar General we had a huge display shelf of the AI Coke, we sold maybe like 10 bottles and the rest got expired and we’re thrown out at the beginning of the month. It tasted awful to me just extra bitter, My friend had a theory that they just blame the bad batch on chatGPT😂!
I tasted it. Despite having sugar in it, it tasted like it was sweetened with artificials; it also had a strong peach and vanilla aftertaste. 2/10, waste of a euro.
I've tried this “future flavor" (literally didn't even say what flavor other than “future") and the best way to describe the flavor is like drinking a can of melted down buttered popcorn JELLYBELLYS...that shit is so nasty bro
I have been passively thinking about if there was a way to do some statistics with flavour combinations. If you could somehow find out mathematically if a set things taste good together you might be able to do some wacky things. Maybe you could look at a list of recipes and find the absolutely rarest combinations and have the math find out the best and rarest one (new combinations?). The problem is that I don't think you could do that without testing literally every flavour combination and that doesn't sound that interesting (or cheap).
I was thinking something similar, but more-so an algorithmic evaluation that is based around a theory of taste that would define a set of optimal ingredients using vectors by which each index contains a seperate type of base flavour's unit value, like scovilles to 'hot' foods.
@@xxkush420 Interesting idea! Sounds like a good starting point to be honest. You'd need to figure out the "basic laws" for the system. Maybe all foods could have a ingredient vector (list of base flavour quantities) that gets normalized to a "flavour" vector, but even that could be assuming too much. You might also need a "filler" flavour component (no taste) if you do this.
I mean marketing busts my balls as is, ai and future money gave me a hernia but coke Y3000 has given me irreversible erectile dysfunction after just a sip. It wasn’t even satisfying, just soured my mood and killed my willy.
You should do a video on the " avarage Scandanavian guy in t-shirts in negative 30 celsius" or what ever the title may be with the song "nas ne doganyat" hardstyle remix or the Rammstein music playing, and the video is from 1978 aftershave commercial.
This may be a a hot take, and I may even eat my words for this one day, but I don't think an algorithm based program can replace innovation. I feel like that's something only human creativity and enginuity can do. AI and algorithms as a whole are simply too stupid to understand the complexities of human creativity.
Use it as a tool, not a replacement. Every time people try to use technology to fully replace something else, turns out it's a horrible idea. Legit, as an artist, I tried the whole AI stuff and it's not worth it as a full replacement. But as some one who has aphantasia, can be useful as a tool to help with my workflow. I just hope to see more implementations that can help the process, but AI devs seriously need to talk to artists on how to actually apply the technology. Which I got plenty of ideas as to how it can be applied.
The best part of Y3000 coke is the commercial being Frutiger Aero AF. Oh, does that have nothing to do with the actual experience of drinking the stuff? That's cause it tastes like unsweetened antifreeze.
Who really though letting an AI design a coca-cola flavor would be a good idea? It's like letting an AI design a fighter jet and then wonder why the wings keep breaking in half when it takes off.
Why would it be a bad idea? Most likely, they have huge dataset of performance and reviews of their products (and they have a lot of them), and extremely precise data of the actual recipes (with all the regional variations) AI should be really good at finding slight correlations and coming up with several ideas, that then could be screened for obvious errors, and then tested internally. unless they did something like asking language model "hey, we want you to design a tastier coke", then yeah, it's dumb.
"How fans envision the future through emotions, aspirations... and more" There's your problem right there. You asked it to design a flavor of depression.
