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Science creates the drink that tastes of holidays
Cheers! Raise a glass to the revolutionary new "Holiday Spirit" rum that puts the A and I into a Mai Tai. Virgin Holidays has unveiled the world's first "data-distilled" drink created by Artificial Intelligence – a bespoke booze they say is "infused with real emotions from holidaymakers around the world''. Sir Richard Branson's firm enlisted IBM's Watson, the world's most intelligent super-computer, to analyse the thoughts and feelings of more than 15 MILLION holidaymakers from their posts on various social media platforms. The predominant getaway emotions were then matched to more than 5,000 rum flavour descriptions and reviews to create a one-off rum recipe that was distilled at the Foursquare plant in Barbados . For example, Watson concluded happy equals vanilla, excited means sugar cane, curious can be matched with cinnamon and relaxed equals coconut. The project was overseen by UK rum guru Ian Burrell to ensure that a recipe derived from Artificial Intelligence was accurately distilled. Using his master blender skills, Ian carefully replicated the digital emotions expressed to create what Virgin Holidays hopes is a smooth, sweet and lightly spiced drink that captures the home of rum, the Caribbean. A Virgin Holidays spokesman said: ''We've long been known for creating the'perfect blend' when it comes to holidays, so we set ourselves the task of translating this into something tangible. Bottling the holiday spirit and creating a blend informed by joy, excitement, curiosity and confidence perfectly encapsulates the Virgin Holidays experience.'' Ian added: "The Virgin Holiday Spirit has a subtle vanilla flavour, medium sweetness, hints of coconut and is naturally caressed with cinnamon and allspice.
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